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Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.
- JRambo 13y ago1 year ago, I made a simple online text editor and only shared it on HN. Now, over 2000 folks use myTextarea every month :) Last months analytics: 2,078 visitors 34.3% returning visitors 65.7% new visitors 61.9% search traffic 31.2% direct traffic 6.8% referral traffic
- simias 13y agoAny idea what they use it for? What's the advantage over all the other pastebin websites in the wild?
- 1337biz 13y agoProbably because it is so clean and free of buggery.
- RutZap 13y agoThis is pretty cool, congratulations! First of all, I have a question: how do you store the users' text? Do you store it on your server (a db) or is is local storage/cookies or something like that? And some feedback: I would make the little save icon slightly bigger (probably have the size in %).
- JRambo 13y agoThanks for your reply. The the users' text is saved with HTML5's local storage.
- rbchv 13y agoDo you have any monetization plans?
- rly_ItsMe 13y agoMaybe I'm too stupid but I don't really get an use case for that 'tool'.
- codfrantic 13y agoI know one: When I have some text from a website or a document with markup, I always paste it to Notepad++ and copy it again before I put it in a document. This way Word or Powerpoint or something isn't messing with existing formatting or anything(I know there are many options to paste without markup and so on but to me, this is just easiest :-) ) It keeping track of number of words / characters is not bad either ^_^. I'll remember this if I'm ever on a machine without the option to install Notepad++ or something :)
- ominous 13y agoPersonally, I just paste it either to the URL bar or with ctrl+shift+v (Chrome, Chromium) into a text field (thinking browser, writing an email) ctrl+shift+v doesn't work with Google Hangouts, thought.
- antrix 13y agoI use a neat little utility called Puretext for this. http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ http://stevemiller.net/puretext/
- __--__ 13y agoYou've never popped open a text editor and started writing things down? I have a dozen notes scattered all over my hard drive because I do that all the time to capture ideas. For some people, it's quicker and easier to open a tab than to open microsoft word. More stable, too.
- rbchv 13y agoI need to be able to use a monospaced font.