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Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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No EULA or privacy statement on the website. Usually with these free services there is something in about using your data for profit.

Honestly, it's a "one man show" and I'm trying to do what I can with my time. The backend of this thing took so long that I pushed everything else too far and too early but I'm recovering.

I will add an eula and privacy. There is absolutely no data being stored or sent anywhere else. You will have to trust my words until I manage to upload those pages. I don't even have a marketing strategy yet, let alone selling "your data for profit". This tool was created for me and a short list of friends. Non of us are native English speakers/writers and I made typely to aid in writing.

Thank you for taking the time and I hope Typely can prove itself useful to you.

Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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post #12

No EULA or privacy statement on the website. Usually with these free services there is something in about using your data for profit.

Honestly, it's a "one man show" and I'm trying to do what I can with my time. The backend of this thing took so long that I pushed everything else too far and too early but I'm recovering. I will add an eula and privacy. There is absolutely no data being stored or sent anywhere else. You will have to trust my words until I manage to upload those pages. I don't even have a marketing strategy yet, let alone selling "yo…

Not to say you don't need the EULA but the fact that it's a one man show has won my trust already.

Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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post #12

No EULA or privacy statement on the website. Usually with these free services there is something in about using your data for profit.

Honestly, it's a "one man show" and I'm trying to do what I can with my time. The backend of this thing took so long that I pushed everything else too far and too early but I'm recovering. I will add an eula and privacy. There is absolutely no data being stored or sent anywhere else. You will have to trust my words until I manage to upload those pages. I don't even have a marketing strategy yet, let alone selling "yo…

>Honestly,...

Strangely enough, your post, copied and pasted "verbatim" in Typely gave (besides "curly quotes"):

EASY TO READ Reading ease

FOURTH GRADE Grade level

RICH Vocabulary

NEGATIVE Sentiment analysis

I would personally rate it as "very positive" in sentiment ...

Heck!, I added the above sentence and also my "very" was tagged as "weasel word"!

Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, it's a "one man show" and I'm trying to do what I can with my time. The backend of this thing took so long that I pushed everything else too far and too early but I'm recovering. I will add an eula and privacy. There is absolutely no data being stored or sent anywhere else. You will have to trust my words until I manage to upload those pages. I don't even have a marketing strategy yet, let alone selling "yo…

>Honestly,... Strangely enough, your post, copied and pasted "verbatim" in Typely gave (besides "curly quotes"): EASY TO READ Reading ease FOURTH GRADE Grade level RICH Vocabulary NEGATIVE Sentiment analysis I would personally rate it as "very positive" in sentiment ... Heck!, I added the above sentence and also my "very" was tagged as "weasel word"!

Since we don't have neutral sentiment baked in, it probably couldn't rate it as being positive because my post is, somewhat, apologizing.

It is easy to read and it is understandable by a fourth grader. The vocabulary was being reported as "Rich" due to the fact it's just a comment and does not repeat many "same" words. The story changes once you keep writing and the vocabulary will go down another level.

I have "in the works" some code to make the engine skip analysis for words inside quotes because of the clear indication of quoting someone else.

Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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Does this have an api / plans to have an api / way to access it programmatically, or perhaps some of the tools are open source?

I've been building a spam/scam filter as a hobby, and some of these metrics might be useful to rank messages by spam probability. The spam bots aren't very sophisticated so I've been able to make very specific targeted metrics to make a spam rating without having to think about advanced spam detection, but I'd love to be able to have access to "reading level" and "vocabulary" metrics and stuff that I'm not inclined to make from the ground up on my own.

Re: Typely, free proofreading software

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I tried it out on a few comments from the long google memo articles, and the response was good. Specially sentiment, and reading difficulty level. One thing that was annoying was marking the word "very" as a weasel word -- in the instances it seemed correctly used. "Controversial" vs "very controversial". Also, modern convention of using straight quotes ("") has become the norm. Marking these for change to curly quot…

For professional typesetters, straight quotes are not the norm. Proper quotes are still expected. However, if you are not a typesetter, you don't really need to worry about it.

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From the sample loaded text: > "Me and Brian got scared" > "Brian and me is the correct form" This isn't true. "Brian and I got scared" is the correct form.

Point taken. My goal was to stop people from starting their sentence using 'Me and ...'. I guess I didn't give it enough thought and simply swapped the words.
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