I Built a Reading Time Calculator Because I Was Tired of Guessing
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The Itch I Had to Scratch Every time I finished writing a blog post, I'd do the same thing: paste it into a random word counter, then open a separate tab for a reading time estimator, then maybe copy it into Hemingway Editor for a readability check. Three tools. Three tabs. Same content. That friction built up over months until I finally just... built one thing that does all of it. That's how ReadMetric came to be. Why This Problem Felt Worth Solving Content creators