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That’s true but I can replace Grammarly in a few hours with Claude. 99% of the functionality. Then, I can spend a couple more days to add stuff that they can’t add due to copyright.
Grammarly has a function that replaces phrases that are typical for LLM output. Good luck coding that in a few hours.
> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
I find this particularly fascinating, given the post email world I live in now. I haven't had an email from a contact in over two years. It sounds like a sales tool, in a world where the goal is to distance from that availability.
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I find this particularly fascinating, given the post email world I live in now. I haven't had an email from a contact in over two years. It sounds like a sales tool, in a world where the goal is to distance from that availability.
Was this “post email world” a choice or something that happened? How do you communicate rather than by email now?
Turns out the second you do this you eliminate 100% of the spam in your life. Honestly, if I ever lived in North America again, I think I'd also just stop reading e-mail.
> Superhuman valued at $825 million in 2021, $35 million annual revenue This is nuts! I used Superhuman for about a year. And honestly, I might still be using it if the pricing weren't so off. It had a couple of nice features, and the keyboard-driven approach was a welcome change for mail clients. But ultimately, Superhuman had nothing that couldn't be replicated in a relatively short amount of time (maybe even with…
So by that logic, Superhuman may be worth around $165 million.
More interestingly though, let’s assume they spent the $110 million they raised. That means that each of the ~85k customers they would appear to have based on the estimated revenue cost them about $1300. Though probably more as a proportion of ongoing revenue will obviously be driving sales and retention.
I did see something somewhere saying that they have very high customer retention. That matches my anecdotal experience - I’ve been using it for several years as have several people I referred.
But yeah… an $800m+ valuation? That feels like Covid-era hype.
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Grammarly has a function that replaces phrases that are typical for LLM output. Good luck coding that in a few hours.
Last I read, they run it off of MSFT/OpenAI.
I've been looking to replace Superhuman recently. None of their AI or Team features matter to me. I just wanted what they originally set out to build -- a super fast, keyboard driven, desktop email client. There are daily paper cut bugs and search issues that have persisted for many years, and I'm not going to stick around through this transition which will surely make the product worse. What do folks like for deskto…
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They might have a lot more cash than you'd expect: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-announces-g...
and superhuman might be worth less than they raised at - https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1940079704423506401 (or not, we simply do not know)
> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
“Increased volume of email” sounds like something people would pay to avoid .
Superhuman user and former Grammarly user here. I'm a big fan of Superhuman as an email client and happily pay the premium price for it. I really hope they don't change what makes it great. I used to love Grammarly until they essentially ruined their product - much like Dropbox did. They took an app that worked perfectly and deprecated it, replacing it with an invasive keyboard replacement that was supposed to work e…