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Keep coding. Punchy Prose will handle copywriting and editing for you.

9 pointsby alexissantosalmost 12 years ago

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alexissantosalmost 12 years ago
Aloha, Hacker News. Just a few minutes ago, I launched Punchy Prose. Recently, I turned my full-time writing gig at a tech blog into a part-time stint so I could focus on honing my Python skills and whipping up web projects. I figured, however, that I could fuse my two interests and lend a hand with copyediting and copywriting. And lo, Punchy Prose was born.<p>PS If you&#x27;re curious, I built the site with Django.
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px1999almost 12 years ago
This is a service that IMO is sorely needed for those who don&#x27;t have the budget to hire an advertising company (who&#x27;d tend to get their interns to write copy for you, and at more than $175 for a landing page). That said, I&#x27;m a little hazy on what classified as a &quot;landing page&quot;. I could see that one size fits all pricing coming back to bite you, as not all clients will have an equal opinion on what&#x27;s a reasonable amount of copy, but I&#x27;m assuming that it&#x27;s a calculated risk that you&#x27;re taking there.<p>I could see it being quite a difficult service to get off the ground. The barrier to entry may be (comparatively) low, but I couldn&#x27;t imagine clients being happy with you taking credit for the copy that they buy even on your own site - do you have a strategy to handle this and get people talking about the service you offer, or are you planning on relying on banner&#x2F;text ads to bring in new clients (or is it something that&#x27;s not entirely sorted out yet)?<p>Either way, all the best, and good luck, I hope it works out for you.
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jmdukealmost 12 years ago
Your lineheights are wonky on my browser (Mac Chrome): specifically, line-height is set to 20px and font-size is set to 32px so there&#x27;s a fair amount of overlap.<p>Also, nothing scares me more than a typo on a site selling me a copyediting service. &quot;Exisintg&quot; should be &quot;existing.&quot;<p>Add social proof as soon as possible; I&#x27;d also include something about a moneyback guarantee.<p>Good luck -- I can&#x27;t wait to see how this evolves :).
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lwhalenalmost 12 years ago
Not to be &#x27;that guy&#x27;, but: &quot;Knee deep in code?&quot; -&gt; &quot;Knee-deep in code?&quot;<p>&quot;Need a document, long-form work or press release edited or written?&quot; -&gt; &quot;Need a document, long-form work, or press release edited or written?&quot;<p>I also am getting the occasional &quot;Gondor is unable to route this request to a site.&quot; message when trying to load the site.
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uts_almost 12 years ago
Typo on the homepage:<p>Spruce up exisintg documents.<p>Not really a good start for a copy editing business....
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