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On its 10th Anniversary, Grammarly Looks Way Beyond Grammar (fastcompany.com)
The service that began by checking prose for glaring mistakes increasingly wants to help its nearly 20 million daily users do more than simply avoid errors. From a report: Plenty of technology companies give away stickers of the sort their fans can slap on the back of a laptop. But the ones available for the taking in the reception area at Grammarly's San Francisco office are distinctly its own -- willfully low-key and thoughtful rather than brash and boastful. Being low-key and thoughtful is a logical tone for a company that is in the business of helping people fine-tune their written words, whether they're meant for a business document, school paper, or social media post. That is what Grammarly has been doing for a decade, since its founding on April 1, 2009, under its soon-abandoned original name of Sentenceworks. But it's also how it wants to run its business, which -- rather than moving fast and breaking things -- waited six years before offering a free version and another two before taking on outside funding.
[...] Grammarly is celebrating its 10th birthday by announcing that it's on the cusp of reaching 20 million daily active users, including both users of the free version and those who pay $30 a month (or $140 a year) for Grammarly Premium or $15 per user per month for Grammarly Business. That's up from 15 million last October and just 1 million at the end of 2015, the year it introduced its free version. The company is an uncommonly effective direct marketer; even if you've never tried its service yourself, there's a pretty good chance you've been exposed to it on YouTube. And even if you hit the "Skip Ad" button as fast as you could, enough viewers have paid attention that YouTube rated Grammarly's spot as the most effective "TrueView for Action" ad of 2018, based on reach, clicks, and engagement.
[...] Grammarly is celebrating its 10th birthday by announcing that it's on the cusp of reaching 20 million daily active users, including both users of the free version and those who pay $30 a month (or $140 a year) for Grammarly Premium or $15 per user per month for Grammarly Business. That's up from 15 million last October and just 1 million at the end of 2015, the year it introduced its free version. The company is an uncommonly effective direct marketer; even if you've never tried its service yourself, there's a pretty good chance you've been exposed to it on YouTube. And even if you hit the "Skip Ad" button as fast as you could, enough viewers have paid attention that YouTube rated Grammarly's spot as the most effective "TrueView for Action" ad of 2018, based on reach, clicks, and engagement.
I see that ads all over the place, but hasn't Word done this pretty much ever since there has been Word?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
with his time-traveling verbs, run-on gibberish word salad and special crammar, our resident published author sure doesn't look like he cares
he is either a genius or a fat failure
hmm
it is difficult
what could he be
Dear Slashdot,
Please put an end to soft self-advertisement. Grammarly is on an advertising run and this article is just another effort to improve subscribers for a tool that is inferior to M$.
-dedicated reader
Americans have been doing their best over the past 10 years to dumb-down English and make it less expressive. What will "grammarly" say to the new generation that doesn't understand the difference between adverbs and adjectives, switches word order around randomly, and even mixes up verb tenses?
Havenâ(TM)t see any Gramarly ads, but this fine fluff piece on Slashdot pried open my mind space. A how many other keyboard drones also got touched worldwide? What was the excuse ? birthday aniversary? Friend of a friend? Hereâ(TM)s hoping Slashdot doesnâ(TM)t get overrun with PR postings, even if becoming aware of a subscription web company of note is mildly interesting....
"Knowing everything doesn't help..."
$30/month for a glorified spell check that steals all of your contacts and stalks your physical location in order to check your spelling.
The tech industry has completely lost its mind. Enjoy your third "happy time" while it lasts.
in the future we will all send google-auto-composed memos to each other for our AI to read and respond. All we need is the George Jetson button.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Have gnu, will travel.
1. Requires account.
2. Subscription software.
3. UX/UI leaves a lot to be desired.
4. Doesn't even work. Unless an account is needed to turn it on. (Tested it in this box. With some known grammar mistakes.
5. Keeps bugging to create an account. Would be great, except for the above.
http://progressquest.com/spoltog.php?name=Son+Of+Son+Of+DarkRookie
Grammerly is shit
Grammerly was shit
Grammerly will continue to be shit.
Shut-up dipshit. I wasn't talking to you so go spam somewhere else like the imbecile you are.
Capitalization is very important. An commas too!
For example. it means the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse...
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
What is so special about grammarly ?
Apart it bought a lot of ads on youtube (and slashdot ?) ?
I' duz not veiw.
I wonder if it is?
I don't know what Grammarly is, but I do know that "Grammar" cannot be made into an adverb, therefore the word "Grammarly" it is bad grammar. What's next, a web-based spell checker called "spelChekkit?"
"Grammarly is celebrating its 10th birthday by announcing that it's on the cusp of reaching 20 million daily active users, including both users of the free version and those who pay $30 a month (or $140 a year) for Grammarly Premium or $15 per user per month for Grammarly Business. That's up from 15 million last October and just 1 million at the end of 2015, the year it introduced its free version. The company is an uncommonly effective direct marketer; even if you've never tried its service yourself, there's a pretty good chance you've been exposed to it on YouTube. And even if you hit the "Skip Ad" button as fast as you could, enough viewers have paid attention that YouTube rated Grammarly's spot as the most effective "TrueView for Action" ad of 2018, based on reach, clicks, and engagement."
I just ran the above through Grammarly and it reported 'Passive Voice Misuse'
the big gay baby is here!
How is the consumer premium version MORE than the Business version- businesses have the deep pockets.
N/t
and in dialogue punctuation is there for cadence as much as sentence structure... so commas and ellipsis are allowed to get the colloquial context across. No one speaks in semi-colons ever.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Grammarly won't help you when you are speaking. Writing is thinking and when you offload that thinking to a machine you are not refining your thinking, you're learning how to use a tool.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Your mouths full of MY dick, lol https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + your words you're eating!
* RoTfLmAo @ U chump!
Learn a lesson: Don't MESS w/ your BETTERS in myself!
(Based on THIS self-defeat of yours + 1,000's of others in the past where I DUSTED YOU? FACT - you don't have the 'technical chops', solid evidence & superior INTELLECT I have vs. your kind (which isn't saying much for me really - it's not tough to take down RETARDS like you & a man's strength's judged by his enemies - judging by how EASILY I let you PLAY YOURSELVES? You're too WEAK & like blowing down simpletons (which you CLEARLY are))!
APK
P.S.=> Now - show us PROOF of me having my mouth full of trucker dick (which I don't) - I do show YOUR MOUTH full of MY DICK lol & your words you're EATING though, lol - have some manners, ENJOY YOUR MEAL (lmao) & DO NOT TALK w/ YOUR MOUTH FULL as you "speak to my 'microphone'" (hahahaha) - it's NOT POLITE of you... apk
I'm not eating my words in PUBLIC self defeat. You are https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... so quit cryin wuss projecting you're a big baby (& probably gay - a REAL man doesn't act like a BITCH like YOU trying to get in "the last word" even though you PLAYED YOURSELF, lol).
An old girlfriend of mine said it best: "Fags are more WOMEN than WOMEN are" & your projecting proves it all the more.
* You did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> Lastly, see subject: Have some MANNERS & CLASS @ least - Don't TALK w/ your mouth FULL of your words as you EAT THEM (hehehehe)... apk
WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS? It's NOT POLITE to TALK w/ your MOUTH FULL of your words you're EATING https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* LOL - EAT YOUR WORDS chump...
You may not have been talking ABOUT me but you tried to "behind my back" (like WHIMPS like you always do to your PUBLIC dismay when I reply back blowing you away...).
(TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE & see above - HAVE SOME MANNERS (since your own BIG MOUTH got you PLAYED, lol - you PLAYED yourself + made ME look GOOD & yourself the SCUMBAG WEEZIL you are... lol!)).
APK
P.S.=> Thank-You for the BEST LAUGH I've had in days albeit @ YOUR EXPENSE (no small wonder you HIDE behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous like the SKULKING "not-man" mere "ne'er-do-well" JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" YOU TRULY ARE (which YOU keep PROVING for me, lol))... apk
See subject & on hosts alone https://games.slashdot.org/com... & liking/using my hosts program too!
* THAT"S NOT ALL EITHER:
On other posts I've done (& I've TRIPLED this amount since I posted this https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
(@ around 700++ now & might as well DOUBLE that since I post AC starting @ 0 by default + those "downmod bombing posts of mine" per this complaint by others today no less as 'evidence thereof' https://idle.slashdot.org/comm... TODAY, who noticed that bullshit too... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> You LOSE as always, ILLITERATE CHUMP who HIDES behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous either STALKING or attempting to "get my goat" (you don't - you only supply me the MEANS TO MAKE YOU EAT YOUR WORDS via Concrete, VERIFIABLE & UNDENIABLE fact vs. your bullshit, lol)... apk
Is it me or is APK deliberately starting shit with himself just to stroke his ego?
APK seems to lurk until just after one of it's alter egos posts something and then it's a spamfest.
Hey, I agree that host files have thier place but, injecting yourself in each conversation , by any means shows a lack of confidence in your personality.
No one really cares but you.
Best of luck with that
See subject & on hosts alone https://games.slashdot.org/com... & liking/using my hosts program too!
* THAT"S NOT ALL EITHER!
On other posts I've done (& I've TRIPLED this amount since I posted this https://it.slashdot.org/commen... )
(@ around 700++ now & might as well DOUBLE that since I post AC starting @ 0 by default + those "downmod bombing posts of mine" per this complaint by others today no less as 'evidence thereof' https://idle.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org] TODAY, who noticed that bullshit too... lol!)
LMAO - you tried to DOWNMOD HIDE this last time I posted it https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... ENJOY EATING YOUR WORDS, fool...
APK
P.S.=> You LOSE as always, ILLITERATE CHUMP who HIDES behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous either STALKING or attempting to "get my goat" (you don't - you only supply me the MEANS TO MAKE YOU EAT YOUR WORDS via Concrete, VERIFIABLE & UNDENIABLE fact vs. your bullshit, lol)... apk