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Ask HN: Review my startup, After the Deadline - Proofreading Plugin for Wordpress, TinyMCE, etc.

30 pointsby raffiabout 16 years ago

9 comments

spydezabout 16 years ago
I tried a sentence at PolishMyWriting.com. The sentence was: "Onec upon at time, there was a potato." It found my misspell, but it:<p><pre><code> 1) Didn't capitalize the correction suggestions. 2) Ate the space between 'once' and 'upon' upon correction. </code></pre> And now that I've given it this reply to proof, it doesn't find the misspelling inside the double quotes. Is that intended?<p>Also, it thinks every first word in 'single quotes' is misspelled.
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ggruschowabout 16 years ago
I pasted in a few pages of my writing from one of my sites into your <a href="http://polishmywriting.com" rel="nofollow">http://polishmywriting.com</a> and clicked "Polish."<p>It didn't appear to do anything.<p>Apparently it didn't find anything wrong with any page except one that contained the word "infuriating", which it felt was spelled incorrectly. I think that's irony. Also, Oxford disagrees: <a href="http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/infuriate?view=uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/infuriate?view=uk</a><p>So back to the first point, if you don't find anything wrong with my text after processing it, I'd recommend putting up a note like "Looks good to me" or some sort of indicator that something happened rather than the button just being broken.
jbrunabout 16 years ago
Hi,<p>Looks really good. I have recommended www.polishmywriting.com to my team before. We would probably be interested in integrating this in our ROR app, as we do a lot of writing. I just put it up on my blog and it does the trick. It did freeze up when I clicked on explain a passive voice (Safari 4).<p>20$ a month for 5 users is ok if all 5 users are intensive users; but, for example, our blog has two regular users and then 2-3 people who blog twice a month. So, what I am trying to say is the pricing structure might need to be tweaked.<p>Otherwise, keep up the good work. How about a French version? Antidote has great software, but no web version.<p>Cheers,<p>Jonathan
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anotherjesseabout 16 years ago
Interesting!<p>A few days ago I blogged how I wished that my readers could copy edit my posts:<p><pre><code> http://overstimulate.com/articles/readers-as-copy-editors </code></pre> I'll try this out. (I was debating prototyping a "copy edit" feature by hacking my Disqus widget to post changes as comments to a hidden thread)
astonabout 16 years ago
Pedantic (but so's your product): The caret that indicates an insertion goes underneath the baseline of the text, not above it.<p><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/symbols.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/symbols.html</a>
mkuhnabout 16 years ago
I don't have an actual blog to test it, but I truly like the idea.<p>One question though, are you planing to support hosted blogging platforms like Blogger? I think that could drastically expand the circle of your potential customers.
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sneweabout 16 years ago
I added it to a WP blog, but don't have anywhere in the admin area to add the API key (except hard-coded). I tried "plugins.php?page=atd-key-config", but got "Cannot load atd-key-config."
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nfriedlyabout 16 years ago
I liked the cliche explanation. I don't do all that much writing, but I might run some of my homework through this before turning it in.
dimitryabout 16 years ago
This is a startup? How?
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