As a funny little anecdote, I know of a Mac word processor company that, as a tiny update, added a live word count feature to their product. Sales shot up 30%.

As a funny little anecdote, I know of a Mac word processor company that, as a tiny update, added a live word count feature to their product. Sales shot up 30%. It turns out that a number of people who write for a living need to hit hard word count limits, and were willing to pay for a product that had that feature. The dev I know who added the feature said he spent all of 15 minutes on it.