[JRambo]

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

[RutZap]

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 %).

[JRambo]

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

[simias]

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

[1337biz]

Probably because it is so clean and free of buggery.

[gte910h]

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

[1337biz]

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

[rbchv]

Well, it IS true.

[rbchv]

Do you have any monetization plans?

[JRambo]

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

[rbchv]

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.