Yikes, you're making a <i>fundamental</i> mistake. A mistake that can destroy your business. What is a "request"? This is your mistake - it's not at all clear what your pricing involved.<p>You see, when I write, I spell check the document about 20-30 times. And your thing only allows 80 requests in a month. Is that a joke?<p>Explain what a request is, otherwise I look at the pricing page and shut it down, because it's totally overpriced. Now, if you you would say each article I write gets spellchecked for $0.063, no matter how many times I spellcheck it, then I would be fine with that. But everytime I spell check I pay that amount? Ridiculous!<p>And I think it's also a bit unclever how you did the pricing.<p>You should go like this: "Get your article professionally spellchecked for 7cents. That's all you pay". People don't pay per month, they just pay per article. However, the minimum amount they can put on their account is $5. You can't actually put 7 cents. And there should be no monthly recurring bill.
I just copied and pasted a blog post I was writing into this and it worked incredibly well, a few minor issues with the tinymce editor, and one or two naive suggestions. however it picked up a lot of good suggestions.
Great idea for a start up Raffi! I hope a lot of sites integrate your technology, because writing and grammar on the Internet is atrocious. My only fear is that people who don't bother to learn appropriate English are the same ones who wouldn't even both to fix mistakes. [Non-native speakers excluded of course]
I'm actually working on integrating this into my site right now because the writing of our users will affect our public credibility, so this type of tool is crucial. Thanks for all the amazing work raffi!
It annoyed me that the best suggestion was not at the top of the right-click menu. Most people don't like having to move their mouse more than needed. See picture for more clarification: <a href="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10047/atd.PNG" rel="nofollow">http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10047/atd.PNG</a><p>The style subsection demo retains a couple of errors after following the suggestions of ATD (though I guess if the person checking it is paying attention, they would notice and fix up the sentence).<p>The grammar subsection demo does not catch the missing hyphen in one-hit wonder (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hit_wonder" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hit_wonder</a>).<p>I'm loving it Raffi. I use it to check my HN posts.
Pasting in your welcome note, it misinterprets "have a fancy". But overall, it seems pretty good (e.g. it picks up a repeated "you you" in joel_feather's pricing comment, which I never would have seen).<p>I think this is pretty comparable to Word, and what you're really offering is that same functionality on a different platform <i>viz.</i> blogs.<p>It would be very cool if when explaining things like "passive voice", it gave an example of a revision of the specific text in question (instead of a random example). Of course, that's hard to do (approaching AI), so you'd probably get Eliza-like responses much of the time. And you only need to be comparable to Word anyway.
Who'se been a busy body then?
After getting over my disappointment that you can't help me write better (I need to write more to achieve that) and realising that this is a WordPress-centric spell+style+grammar checker, I had a quick look around and liked what I saw. Looking good, well done and good luck.
This is not going to help you write better any more than naive grammar checkers will, many of which did things like check for passive voice. If you want to write better, check out William Zinsser's On Writing Well.
I love the poem in the "Detects Misused Words" demo, and it will appeal to early adopters. Good marketing. It doesn't pick up <i>all</i> the misused words (only about half), but that would be a big ask.