Hey IH 👋
I've been quietly building something that scratches my own itch, and I think some of you will find it useful too.
The problem I kept running into:
Every time I needed a Word document — a report, a template, a proposal — I had two bad options:
Open Word/Google Docs and format everything manually
Use an AI chat tool, get a wall of text, then spend 20 minutes fixing it in Word
Neither felt right for a developer in 2025. So I built a third option.
What I built → docreplacer.online
You type a prompt. You get a .docx file. That's it.
No sign-up. No backend. No data sent to a server. Everything happens in your browser.
The tech angle (for the nerds):
This is 100% client-side. Your prompts and generated files never touch my servers because there are no servers. State is managed in localStorage. I'm using vanilla JS with a DOCX generation library running entirely in the browser. Zero infrastructure cost means I can keep it free indefinitely.
Who I built this for:
Indie hackers who need quick proposal/report drafts
Freelancers who don't want yet another SaaS subscription
Developers who value privacy and hate data collection
Anyone who's copy-pasted AI output into Word one too many times
Where I am:
This is MVP/testing phase. No users yet (well, maybe a few 😅). I'm validating whether people actually want this before I build more features.
What I'd love from the IH community:
Try it → docreplacer.online
Tell me what broke or what you wished it did
Be brutally honest — is this something you'd actually use?
The hardest part wasn't the code. It was convincing myself that "simple and client-side" is a feature, not a limitation. Privacy-first tools are underrated.
AMA in the comments 👇