Never used of Grammarly and only heard of it in some random feed once a year in the past few years. Is money slushing like water in earth or what?
Grammarly acquires Superhuman
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Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#52This is a bit surprising. I even didn't expect Grammarly to have the cash, I used to be a paying customer of theirs when I was writing papers, but apparently with AI I don't even need the free Grammarly anymore.
That was my thought as well, but one of my college age kids still likes Grammarly over just using ChatGPT for grammar checking and rewriting, says it does a better job.
Excited to see what they are doing now after the "acquisition" of Coda (seems like a bit of a reverse acquisition or acquihire since they buy Coda and have Coda leadership take over Gramarly.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#53I'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…
Mailmate on macOS is good
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#54Grammarly has an existential crisis. It can be replaced it with free versions of the top models and they are much better (and I can control the UI anyway I want). In fact, many of these “web 2.0” business models are a few more updates away from getting replaced.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Harper checks a lot of your boxes and is getting better all the time: https://writewithharper.com/
How does Harper compare with LanguageTool. We use a privately hosted version. It's better than nothing, but in practice it's more like a super-charged spell checker.
On the homepage it has a comparison of figures, presumably indicating response time, though it doesn't speak to its performance in terms of grammatical errors caught:
Harper - 10 ms LanguageTool - 650 ms Grammarly - 4000 ms
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#56Superhuman, the most super-email client experience, that only people in the bay area (and some folks in NYC) actually use. How much did they pay for this? I hope not much.
Those are some of the best customers to have in case your business is under threat and you might need a bailout (M&A) in the future.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition? I can think of countless examples where it got worse, but from the top of my head, I can only think of maybe YouTube, but then only in the initial post-purchase period, and same goes for a bunch of other examples. They see…
Arm Diamond Aircraft Volvo Cirrus All retained their culture and brand and the products keep improving incrementally. Parent companies keep a low profile wrt product.
Volvo owners I know would disagree vehemently
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#58> 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 think Superhuman's CEO in an interview said their product is specifically catered to people who are seeking inbox zero.
For those people this would be a great outcome. The question is should this be the goal of most people? Probably not. But most people are not their ideal customer. They explained their ideal customer in depth in an episode of the Acquired Podcast.
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#59Superhuman, the most super-email client experience, that only people in the bay area (and some folks in NYC) actually use. How much did they pay for this? I hope not much.
You would need close to 90k customers to get $35M revenue as they claim.
90 thousand customers sounds like a whole lot of users to me.
I use it myself and it is by far the best email experience ever created. Is it worth the money? That depends on your needs and work, I guess. CEOs laugh at the cost. Developers might think the price is nuts.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#60This is a bit surprising. I even didn't expect Grammarly to have the cash, I used to be a paying customer of theirs when I was writing papers, but apparently with AI I don't even need the free Grammarly anymore.
That was my thought as well, but one of my college age kids still likes Grammarly over just using ChatGPT for grammar checking and rewriting, says it does a better job. Excited to see what they are doing now after the "acquisition" of Coda (seems like a bit of a reverse acquisition or acquihire since they buy Coda and have Coda leadership take over Gramarly.
I would actually agree with that, too. Grammarly certainly isn't perfect (it still occasionally struggles with the nuance of some idioms or proper nouns), but it does better than LLMs (I use MacWhisper with its "CleanUp" AI prompt for dictation). But Grammarly's inline use is actually pretty handy (even in this text box, I pause typing for a moment, and there's a Tab prompt that will auto-edit my text live).