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Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by briandoll »

rwc wrote: post #68
briandoll wrote: post #50

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…

Mimestream on Mac implements GMail's keyboard shortcuts so there was no learning curve for me and I'm able to enjoy a desktop app experience.

This does seem pretty seamless to swap to, thanks!

Now to figure out iOS ;)

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by stavros »

The founder of Superhuman has really got this playbook down. I remember his previous startup (Rapportive?) was another email-improving thing that got acquired by LinkedIn fairly quickly and got shut down. Not a bad gig.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by jakub_g »

anilshanbhag wrote: post #5

Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it. Really wish there was an alternative that: 1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server. 2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on each page.

FWIW: latest Chrome ships built-in AI APIs

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

so it should be a matter of time to have a replacement extension using this local API. However the built-in model is Gemini Nano.

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Post by voigt »

latexr wrote: post #74
atlantacrackers wrote: post #3

My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months not years. See Dropbox/Mailbox.

> See Dropbox/Mailbox. And Google/Sparrow.

Really miss Sparrow! To me it was the perfect email client.

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by voigt »

> 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 plugins?).

$825 million? Maybe I should start a mail client company...

Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman

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Post by micromacrofoot »

lvl155 wrote: post #54

Grammarly 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.

yet they recently received a billion dollars in financing this year?!
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