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Blog comment correcting startup gets $25m funding
typicalprogrammer.com
I guess YCombinator make money when their companies receive funding?
Anyway, congrats and good luck!
My first reaction was "how the f--- did they raise 25 million dollars ?", after reading I see their use but still, why 25 million dollars? Do they need that kind of money to expand? How many are they? Do founders ever get a large sum of such money as their own money or is it always purely investment money? I guess YCombinator make money when their companies receive funding? Anyway, congrats and good luck!
It seems way more efficient to have something like this running server side by whoever is hosting the content. This is something like charging for a spelling/grammar checker to read documents. As long as the publisher had a good editor I shouldn't have to pay for one.
My first reaction was "how the f--- did they raise 25 million dollars ?", after reading I see their use but still, why 25 million dollars? Do they need that kind of money to expand? How many are they? Do founders ever get a large sum of such money as their own money or is it always purely investment money? I guess YCombinator make money when their companies receive funding? Anyway, congrats and good luck!
It's expensive to build the necessary infrastructure -- the conjunction junctions alone can cost millions.
Most people either don’t recognize or don’t care when they encounter a misspelled word or incorrectly-formed plural. But some people do notice, and there’s a personality type that will spend a lot of time demonstrating their superior English skills online."
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So the target customer is someone who wants to not be so hung up about spelling mistakes and grammar, and wants to save time? This just seems a ridiculous answer to me. I can see it being very useful, and a great feature in something else...
Is the name 'apostrophree' a typo itself? There are no hits on Google besides this article. It seems way more efficient to have something like this running server side by whoever is hosting the content. This is something like charging for a spelling/grammar checker to read documents. As long as the publisher had a good editor I shouldn't have to pay for one.
apostrophree is not a YC startup. Presumably its completely made up (its or it's??).