TextScrubr

TextScrubr is a free text cleaner that runs entirely in your browser. You paste in something messy, AI output, a copied Word doc, a chunk off a webpage, and it pulls out all the stuff you can't see. The invisible characters, the watermark marks some AI tools slip in, the curly smart quotes, the em dashes, the double spaces. What you get back is plain, clean text with your headings, bullets and code blocks left exactly where you put them.

I built it because I kept getting paranoid. You copy text from somewhere, paste it somewhere else, and you have no idea what's riding along with it. Hidden metadata, weird zero-width characters, the little tells that scream "this came out of a chatbot." I wanted a quick way to scrub all of that out without sending my text to some server I don't control. So the whole thing is local. Nothing uploads. That's the part I actually care about.

Money-wise it's a zero. It's a lead magnet, not a product. Free, no signup, just a tool that does one job well. The point isn't to charge for it. The point is to be useful enough that people find it, use it, and stick around for the rest of what I'm building.

It's a single page that does its work right in the browser. There's no backend, no database, no accounts. You paste text into one box and the cleaned version shows up in the other as you type. Every transform runs on your own machine, which is what lets me promise nothing gets uploaded, because there's literally nowhere for it to go.

The actual cleaning is a stack of toggles. Hidden characters, odd spaces, double spaces, extra blank lines, then a punctuation set for em and en dashes, smart quotes and ellipses. Each one is its own switch so you can decide how aggressive to be. The dash one even lets you pick what to replace them with, a comma, a hyphen, or nothing. Same static-site-plus-AI setup as my other builds. Cheap to host, fast to load.

The next piece is the one I haven't shipped yet. A $29 skill that drops this same cleaning straight into your own AI chat, so you don't have to bounce out to a tab to use it. That's the only paid part of TextScrubr, and it doesn't exist yet. The free tool comes first.

Nothing to show yet. It went live this week, so there's no traffic and the paid skill isn't out. The thing I'll be watching here is whether a genuinely useful free tool pulls people in better than a blog post does, and how many of those folks turn into subscribers or, eventually, $29 buyers. I'll put the real numbers up here as they come in. No guesses until there's data.