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Re: I'm out, baby

#91
Congrats Shawn! I think that Robert Frost said it best: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference

Re: I'm out, baby

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When I left the military I had substantial savings to get a startup off the ground and finish a graduate degree. I decided to write software to help people write better. I always had issues with my own writing as was excited about an extended GNU Style / Diction that could curb my own bad habits. I created http://www.polishmywriting.com/ as a technical demonstration for my rule engine. I spent the month of June worki…

You have a winner on your hands. License this technology because it has no place on a sub-par designed "web 2.0" business wanna-be site. Be outrageously aggressive in your attempts to contact would be licensees.

Re: I'm out, baby

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When I left the military I had substantial savings to get a startup off the ground and finish a graduate degree. I decided to write software to help people write better. I always had issues with my own writing as was excited about an extended GNU Style / Diction that could curb my own bad habits. I created http://www.polishmywriting.com/ as a technical demonstration for my rule engine. I spent the month of June worki…

have you tried pasting pg's essays inside your system? :)

Pretty amusing experiment. The site doesn't seem to like pg's informal writing style.

Very cool website though. I need to use this on my blog posts.

Re: I'm out, baby

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When I left the military I had substantial savings to get a startup off the ground and finish a graduate degree. I decided to write software to help people write better. I always had issues with my own writing as was excited about an extended GNU Style / Diction that could curb my own bad habits. I created http://www.polishmywriting.com/ as a technical demonstration for my rule engine. I spent the month of June worki…

This is an interesting site, and I think may benefit my startup users. My site slapastory.com is a social site focusing on writers, I would love to cross link with you? Let me know.

Re: I'm out, baby

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well we almost agree don't we? :) I am sure we can agree on something :) My point (which is based on a relevant experience) is - don't release anything to the public unless you are certain it will get traction. If you want to validate the feature set or your market positioning, do a closed release. A lot of people tend to underestimate the importance of the initial public release. It is a single, most important nat…

Hey Ive been there too and from my experience big splash entries like Techcrunch articles and the likes don't do as much as people think. "don't release anything to the public unless you are certain it will get traction." This is a distribution issue which is in my opinion is a entirely different feature set than the "product". While off topic I agree the only thing you should be focusing on is getting traction. In f…

.. or maybe the target market is different :)

Re: I'm out, baby

#97
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you tried pasting pg's essays inside your system? :)

Pretty amusing experiment. The site doesn't seem to like pg's informal writing style. Very cool website though. I need to use this on my blog posts.

would be nice to see a before and after of Paul Graham's essays - it would demonstrate how this site can "formalize" something informal :)

Re: I'm out, baby

#98
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Awesome. I'm 2 months into the same process. It is full of ups and downs but infinitely more rewarding than where I was. Except that I am still waiting to get my Dropbox account.

You now have one. Check your e-mail. :) Also, welcome to Hacker News.

palish! you are the bomb. i made it one day ahead of the public launch! i feel special.

i love hacker news.

Re: I'm out, baby

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When I left the military I had substantial savings to get a startup off the ground and finish a graduate degree. I decided to write software to help people write better. I always had issues with my own writing as was excited about an extended GNU Style / Diction that could curb my own bad habits. I created http://www.polishmywriting.com/ as a technical demonstration for my rule engine. I spent the month of June worki…

You may want to include GoogieSpell into it -> http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/

It's open-source and you can either use Google or Aspell. I am the author of it.

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