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

I tried a sentence at PolishMyWriting.com. The sentence was: "Onec upon at time, there was a potato." It found my misspell, but it:

  1) Didn't capitalize the correction suggestions.
  2) Ate the space between 'once' and 'upon' upon correction.

And now that I've given it this reply to proof, it doesn't find the misspelling inside the double quotes. Is that intended?

Also, it thinks every first word in 'single quotes' is misspelled.

I pasted in a few pages of my writing from one of my sites into your http://polishmywriting.com and clicked "Polish."

It didn't appear to do anything.

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: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/infuriate?view=uk

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.

Hi,

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).

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.

Otherwise, keep up the good work. How about a French version? Antidote has great software, but no web version.

Cheers,

Jonathan

Interesting!

A few days ago I blogged how I wished that my readers could copy edit my posts:

  http://overstimulate.com/articles/readers-as-copy-editors

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)

Pedantic (but so's your product): The caret that indicates an insertion goes underneath the baseline of the text, not above it.

http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/symbols.html

I don't have an actual blog to test it, but I truly like the idea.

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.

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."

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.

This is a startup? How?