Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users

by ent101 on 2/6/2020, 1:01 AM with 90 comments
  • by dang on 2/6/2020, 5:11 AM
  • by keyle on 2/6/2020, 2:53 AM

    You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code... HTML Editable, save to local storage; pretty handy stuff.

    Has anyone built a substantial one like this for their own use?

  • by JDiculous on 2/17/2020, 8:58 PM

    Here's a free minimal text editor I wrote: https://www.writepad.xyz (or https://writepad.netlify.com)

    Features:

    - Works offline

    - Autosaves to local storage

    - Downloadable as PWA (Progressive Web App) on mobile

    - Dark mode

  • by goodside on 2/6/2020, 5:51 AM

    That’s not the world’s simplest text editor.

    This is:

      data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
    That’s a working URL. Paste it into your browser. Bookmark it for later.

    No distracting GUI. No superfluous features like “save” or “open”. Does not track active user statistics. Works offline.

  • by mostlystatic on 2/6/2020, 8:35 AM

    I use https://bigtextbox.com/ a lot, as a nicer way to leave a note in the browser than doing a Google search.

  • by Galaco on 2/6/2020, 7:25 AM

    Interesting idea, but realised that I can't use undo/redo after pressing Tab (at least on FireFox); it immediately made the experience awkward and more complicated.

  • by torgian on 2/6/2020, 9:27 AM

    As I'm sitting here with my pencil, paper, and eraser ( some pencils come with erasers! ), I wonder what could be easier than this kind of text editor.

  • by scrame on 2/6/2020, 5:28 AM

    Huh. Pretty cool. I can't set a filename on firefox, but I like that the style is bigger than the actual markup.

  • by rhabarba on 2/6/2020, 8:34 AM

    "World's simplest text editor" sends 13 requests to a web server, including one to world's leading spyware company. No, thank you.

  • by classified on 2/6/2020, 8:31 AM

    World's simplest text editor is:

      $ cat > edited.txt
    Enter text, hit ^D when you're done.

    If you pray hard enough, Google will find a way to let you do that in a browser, so someone can count MAUs.

  • by tiborsaas on 2/6/2020, 10:40 AM

    I use this site for utilising the browsers spell checker :)

  • by hajimemash on 2/6/2020, 3:47 AM

    Wow! How do you know it has over 15k monthly users?

  • by starpilot on 2/6/2020, 6:36 AM

    Now... is it ramen profitable?

  • by purplezooey on 2/7/2020, 3:48 AM

    How does the author make any money... I see no ads

  • by on 2/6/2020, 8:56 AM

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  • by qwerty456127 on 2/6/2020, 3:37 AM

    Given the amount of unused space in the toolbar I believe you can safely add some handy features without making it worse in any sense so even more people would appreciate it. I'd add regex search&replace (with support to add/replace newline and tab symbols) and codepage conversion (including support for decrypting wrong codepage text and encoding/decoding the selected text as a URL replacing non-latin symbols with their codes and vice versa).