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Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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Any idea what they use it for? What's the advantage over all the other pastebin websites in the wild?

Probably because it is so clean and free of buggery.

I don't think that's the term you meant: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buggery

Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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1 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

Do you have any monetization plans?

Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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1 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

Do you have any monetization plans?

That was never the intent. A sponsor would be nice. Any tips?

Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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1 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

This 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 %).

Thanks for your reply. The the users' text is saved with HTML5's local storage.

Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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Do you have any monetization plans?

That was never the intent. A sponsor would be nice. Any tips?

It would be useful if you had some idea of who your public is. Then you could place some (hopefully unobtrusive) affiliate links for some product/service of their interest.

Re: Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

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Probably because it is so clean and free of buggery.

I don't think that's the term you meant: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buggery

Thanks for the laugh. Learning something new every day :)
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