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[rsmudge]

Hi everyone,
This isn't technically a muse. In a way I'm pitting my 4-hour workweek

http://www.feedbackarmy.com

against my 80-hour workweek

http://www.afterthedeadline.com

After the Deadline is what I'm pointing you to now. Would love your thoughts.

[Grayman]

My first impression is that Firefox already has a built in spell checker so why would I pay for this?

You aren't differentiating this product enough from a normal spell checker, and even after perusing your site for a bit I'm still not sure what the Advanced Style Checker does.

The site looks great though!

[rsmudge]

My first impression is that Firefox already has a built in spell checker so why would I pay for this?

You aren't differentiating this product enough from a normal spell checker, and even after perusing your site for a bit I'm still not sure what the Advanced Style Checker does.

The site looks great though!

Thanks for the thoughts. Will work a bit on the message. This product is a research problem. My spellchecker looks at the surrounding words and uses artificial intelligence to rate corrections. To be blunt, Firefox does not. My accuracy is a few percentage points below MS Word. I have the numbers from replicating another experiment that measures spellcheckers. I even have the same data. I haven't published them yet due to lack of time and other factors.

One other thing worth noting--I make an attempt to correct "real word" errors i.e. there and their, where and were, etc. I'm not happy with the accuracy I'm achieving in this area. I find some misuses now but this feature will get much better later. This is something the built-in Firefox spellchecker doesn't do.

Grammar checkers try to understand a sentence using known rules. If a grammar checker can understand a sentence it assumes its correct. Otherwise it flags it.

Style checkers flag phrases that match certain patterns and give suggestions. I'm using some statistical processing here but nothing as sophisticated as the spellchecker. MS Office does some style checking but style checkers are available beyond office for USD $130-$160.

These are the most sophisticated writing improvement tools generally available for web applications at this time.

[Grayman]

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

I think you should take what you wrote in that post and put it on your site to give potential customers more of an idea of what your product is.

Also some real world examples of the type of thing your plugin will help with. Maybe a video of someone typing up a Wordpress post and having your plugin catch a their/there mixup, then in the next sentence have the style checker catch something.