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Question

How much can be learned about a piece of writing from typing it, live, without submitting anything?

Hypothesis

Instant, local feedback on writing metrics would be more useful than a submit-and-wait tool.

What it is

A live text analysis panel — type or paste a sentence and watch word count, reading time and repeated words calculate as you go.

Try it

Live on the experiments page — start typing to see it work.

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Result

People used it far more for checking repeated words in their own writing than for the reading-time estimate it was originally built around.

What I learned

The feature people actually want isn't always the one you designed the tool around.