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Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by benhurmarcel »

cik wrote: post #103
saaaaaam wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was this “post email world” a choice or something that happened? How do you communicate rather than by email now?

In my country, e-mail is now used purely as a sales tool. Notifications from government and schools are also delivered via SMS, and either WhatsApp or Telegram. So.. yeah, block everyone. 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.

You're talking about personal email, they're talking about professional email.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by digital_voodoo »

overfeed wrote: post #116
daft_pink wrote: post #99

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…

> Then they started acquiring other services I eventually cancelled as they tried to integrate them into their core service I was struck by a snippet I read recently - I can't remember the organization being discussed - that I'll paraphrase as "The company is the product, and it's being sold to shareholders", and currently, it is very fashionable to sell the story of unceasing growth, so companies will do anything, i…

> unceasing growth

As someone with a finance background and job, this deeply annoys and irritates me. Even made me quit a market finance path for something more realistic. As the saying goes, "you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet". I don't know why we need to explain something so obvious to people who (1) have the power to make and (2) are making decisions with large scale impact, every minute. Unless there's something (pure evil, maybe?) I haven't uncovered yet.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by cik »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #131
cik wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my country, e-mail is now used purely as a sales tool. Notifications from government and schools are also delivered via SMS, and either WhatsApp or Telegram. So.. yeah, block everyone. 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.

You're talking about personal email, they're talking about professional email.

Please do not assume that professional email is used differently. Plenty of companies here simply black hole inbound email unless it's from the same domain or known applications. Frankly, it's refreshing.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by StochasticLi »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #124
StochasticLi wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm paying for most AI models top tiers and Grammarly. Grammarly is a phenomenal tool. It's not that LLMs can't do it. Well, they can't, but the more important thing is Grammarly's UI.

What do you like about their UI and what are your main use cases?

I can see room for improvement about the UI, but I like that it works everywhere and I use it to, obviously fix grammar and mistakes, to add/change our company's specific vernacular (finance), and to change common LLM sentence forms so that the readers don't notice that content was made by AI. Ya know, all these em dashes, "testaments to", "this isn't just X, it's Y", etc.

My favorite function of the UI is that, on any website, pressing TAB just fixes/improves what I just wrote before.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by StochasticLi »

ivankahl wrote: post #128
StochasticLi wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm paying for most AI models top tiers and Grammarly. Grammarly is a phenomenal tool. It's not that LLMs can't do it. Well, they can't, but the more important thing is Grammarly's UI.

Agree with this. I love that Grammarly is integrated into everything, and I don't have to switch to an AI chat for minor text edits.

Exactly. Also, it's incredibly affordable, especially when you buy it on Black Friday.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by daft_pink »

noname120 wrote: post #110
daft_pink wrote: post #99

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…

What do you like about Superhuman that Spark Mail doesn't have?

So my work is client based and it really makes sense to divide almost all the email into client folders. Superhuman lets me quickly move stuff from my inbox into the client’s folder. It’s just very very quick.

I actually used spark mail for a while, because it would export to my crm, but eventually I wrote a script that converts all my emails to pdf to drop into my crm.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by apparent »

v5v3 wrote: post #130
Fuzzy1000 wrote: post #35

So many unexpected moves lately. AI is really changing how companies assess their trajectory and business plans.

They raised $1 billion and bought a small company. If Ai was so good, they wouldn't have needed to buy a company. They would have vibe coded it in 10 minutes.

They bought the high-value users (CEOs, VCs, etc.). They can then sell to those folks, and perhaps train their tools based off of the way that those folks write/behave (if their privacy policy allows it).

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by isaachinman »

michihuber wrote: post #127
isaachinman wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're building what you want: https://marcoapp.io

are you unifying the inbox across multiple mail accounts? (like apple Mail.app does)

Yes, that's one of our core USPs. It's possible to view one email account at a time, all at once, or any user-generated combination you might desire.
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