Show HN: Free boring character counter but with modern UI

[_mitterpach]

That's a very nice and polished site, I especially like the sidebar for reading and speaking time, that seems very useful. I notice emojis count as two characters, but that's probably the standard, right?

I think there is a large market for apps that just work, they do one thing and one thing well. I remember reading about somebody who makes a living out of their app, which is just a crossword maker, but accessible enough to be used by teachers and ordinary people.

[amake]

It's not counting "characters"; it's counting UTF-16 code units, so for instance a country flag is 4 "characters" because it's two regional indicator symbols, each composed of two surrogates.

It should really be using `Intl.Segmenter` instead of `string.length`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10287887/get-grapheme-ch...

[MajorBaguette]

Some emojis require two UTF-16 code units so yep, standard

Thanks btw, I made this one as a test to see how it could perform as I can't stand terrible UI ones. I'll probably launch more. What'd you like to see next ?

[rrr_oh_man]

Nice UI, indeed!

I posted the first thing on my clipboard (a YouTube URL) and, interestingly, it showed me

  Words: 1
  Sentences: 3

PS: thank you for not shoveling LLMs into this

[MajorBaguette]

Interesting... I'll have a look at the "algo"

Yep no need to over engineer things here :)

[glonq]

i posted an emoji and it counted it as two characters

[mondov]

Really nice UI! and the social media limits are useful. I needed this a few days ago, bookmarked and will use in the future. Thanks!

[super5000]

Nice!

You could also count LLM tokens, too- that’d be helpful.

Note: The Pro threw me off, because Pro typically means “paid SaaS.”

[MajorBaguette]

That's actually a great idea!

I just added general one (I want the app to stay simple + maintaining specific models token cost would be a nightmare)

[billybuckwheat]

Nice work! A clean, simple but effective tool. Plan to use it in the future as I need it.

[MajorBaguette]

Cool thanks! I plan to launch more "boring" tools in a near future, what would you find useful?