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Grammarly acquires Coda

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Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by mobiledev2014 »

a9a wrote: post #16

A bit surprised OpenAI didn’t acquire coda. Solid leadership team and the product would be a nice complement to OAI’s current portfolio. Lots of AI usage will seamlessly live in productivity tools which means OAI is disintermediated at point of use by its biggest rival Google (workspace) or its frenemy MSFT (office). Coda’s tools seemed well built and available for a fraction of the cost of buying eg Notion.

Coda is torture to use. Heard great things about Notion. I doubt they are in the same UX ballpark

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by girvo »

gosub100 wrote: post #51
CamelCaseName wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Students these days have no idea of the struggle. Then again, I can't imagine the struggle of having to rely entirely on libraries pre-internet

I graduated in the mid 2000s, and right around that time they moved the main library collection into a mechanical bin that you have to request an attendant to request books for you. I have fond memories of looking up X, and going to the library and exploring the section where X was stored, along with all the books around it. this experience is dead now with their new "system". It's been about 20 years and I'm an old…

I loved going through our (small) programming & computers section in our school library in the early 2000s, and visiting the local library with a much larger one. I picked up PHP because of that :)

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Post by morkalork »

profsummergig wrote: post #24

Last month most of my YouTube ads have been Grammarly. Don't know how they can afford such blanket coverage. I've never used it.

Hah, someone said the exact same thing about Chegg when they're in the same spot as being decimated by chatgpt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42103764

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

mobiledev2014 wrote: post #60
Angostura wrote: post #29

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Awww. They've gone subscription model - because of course they have.

That's very disingenuous. Nova replaces Coda "Buy Nova, own it forever [...] $99 + tax includes one full year of updates and new features" Not getting updates forever != subscription

Right. It's closer to Jetbrains' model for their IDE, although arguably better. IIRC if you stop paying Jetbrains an annual license, the license "falls back" to the version the IDE was at when the license started 12 months ago; if you stop paying Panic, the Nova license remains good for the major version of Nova you have when the license ended. (e.g., if you bought a license when Nova 10.0 was current and the license "expired" when Nova 11.1 was the current version, you don't have to go back to Nova 10; you can keep using Nova 11 and keep getting updates until Nova 12 is released.)

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

est31 wrote: post #53
zusammen wrote: post #32

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This is how the startup life is sold to youngsters—million-dollar conversations just happen—and it’s amusing to see the myth is still alive.

As long as we live in a society of humans, there will be humans controlling millions of dollars, billions, trillions, and then yes, -illion dollar conversations do happen, sometimes randomly even. That's one of the purposes of all the country clubs, yacht clubs, galas, etc. Business people spend their entire day talking about their business, that's literally their job. Sometimes business opportunities come from rando…

I'd like to think humanity will eventually obsolete money in favor of something a bit more flexible. It's kind of a clumsy tool.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by bruce511 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #30

I wish mergers were not possible. I feel like the merger/acquisition thing has gone way to far to make behemonth corporations that help no one but the rich.

Anecdotes are not data, and we are (most definitely) not a behemoth, but here is my experience.

A) we acquired a small (2 person) company for the people. Basically paid of their debt and they became employees. They gad experience in our domain space.

B) we acquired our distributer. We make product (hardware and software) and our (exclusive national) distributer went onto the market. We made an offer. We subsumed twice as many staff, and three times the offices.

Fast forward a decade later and the (combined) business has grown a lot, customers are better served, and there is more continuity from "farm to table".

So, from my perspective, your proposal to ban acquisitions seems to be painting with a very broad brush.

Equally, at the macro scale, there are regulatory controls in place. The recent denial of the T-mobile merger being a case in point.

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Post by lchengify »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #25
fakedang wrote: post #17

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Grammarly may have been collateral damage, but the first target to be nuked was Chegg.

Students these days have no idea of the struggle. Then again, I can't imagine the struggle of having to rely entirely on libraries pre-internet

I'm not that old, and I still remember being really disappointed when something wasn't in my home (book) Encyclopedia. Then you would trudge to the library to find maybe one book on the obscure topic.

You could request a book be sent from another library, but that would take weeks, and you had no idea what was in that book.

It was wild. Most things were just unknown, or whatever you parents told you.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by azinman2 »

antihipocrat wrote: post #56
skeeter2020 wrote: post #43

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My CTO uses it, which is frankly, terrifying. We'll be in a shared screen session editing slides for a board meeting or very sensitive docs, and their little UI prompts are shining away. ...and it's not like it improves his grammar or spelling - they're still terrible!

Is the CTO aware that the information being checked could be leaked to a competitor?

Do you think Grammarly is offering up individual’s logs to the highest bidder?

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Post by alwa »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #66
est31 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as we live in a society of humans, there will be humans controlling millions of dollars, billions, trillions, and then yes, -illion dollar conversations do happen, sometimes randomly even. That's one of the purposes of all the country clubs, yacht clubs, galas, etc. Business people spend their entire day talking about their business, that's literally their job. Sometimes business opportunities come from rando…

I'd like to think humanity will eventually obsolete money in favor of something a bit more flexible. It's kind of a clumsy tool.

What do you imagine, directionally speaking, as a more elegant tool?

I’m understanding your comment to suggest that you find money a clumsy tool for the purpose of allocating human effort and capital… I hope and suspect you have something broader and more elegant in mind than “money, but digital”!

For some reason Doctorow and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom comes to mind: https://craphound.com/down/download/

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