I was looking for a utility that transforms characters into their HTML equivalents, but while doing so I couldn't find any that satisfied me. This one was ok, but wasn't very good. Instead of converting a space to   it used the unicode numbers. Not cool. Would be a nice project to make a good one of those and try to get it high up on Google.

nice and simple placeholders

1. Some student needs to write a paper and the teacher creates some ridiculous page requirement that they have no right to do (happened to me all the time in highschool). Student writes 4 pages of glorious content and they wrote it so well thet there is nothing left to say of course... Come to wordCrib! find longer synonyms… stretch the content 2 extra pages maybe (This is the main feature)
2. Maybe your just not the greatest at coming up with creative words and you want to sound more intelligent in your essay, this would be a lot quicker then navigating through menus in word
3. Search Engine Optimization might pick it up to generate fake websites with content similar to others just by clicking the random button.
4. You can take any text and “put it in your own words” although the grammar may be all messed up and I by no means condone plagiarism. I’m finding that nearly every word can be more then one part of speech (Ex “copy” verb and noun).

What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn't take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.

not profitable, according to hn hackerne.ws/item?id=3303776

The categories of cost structures / companies for building a custom web app. Much truth to this.

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