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Building Textfold in public
Honest numbers, design decisions and how text expansion works under the hood, from the developer.
My first paying customer, 6 days after launch
A stranger paid $19 for Textfold six days after launch. The honest numbers, where people came from, what strangers made me fix, and what I'm changing next.
Read →Why every Textfold snippet is a plain .txt file
Most text expanders keep your snippets in a database only they can read. Textfold uses plain text files in a folder you choose. Why, what it makes possible, and the trade-offs.
Read →How a text expander actually works on macOS
What happens in the third of a second between typing ;sig and seeing your signature: event taps, abbreviation matching, fake keystrokes, the clipboard, and the edge cases that make it hard.
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