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Text Utils
A utility application providing a suite of text manipulation tools for developers and writers to format, transform, and analyze text.
A grab-bag of text utilities developers and writers reach for daily — case conversion, character and word counts, basic encoders, and quick transforms — all with live results as you type.
Lives inside a shared React monorepo with Matrix Tasks and Todo App, so they share a build pipeline and a small design system.
Case study
- Problem
- Devs and writers reach for the same handful of text utilities every day — case conversion, counts, basic encoders — but each typically lives in a different bookmark or one-off site, with ad-heavy UIs and stale UX.
- Approach
- Single page, live results as you type, no nags. Each utility is a small isolated component so adding a new one is a focused diff. Shares the build pipeline and design system with Matrix Tasks and Todo App in the same React monorepo.
- Outcome
- Bookmarks consolidate to one URL. Performance is trivial since there's no network round-trip per transform — everything runs in-page on the input as you type.
Tech stack
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
TypeScript