Build another grammar spell checker. Is it worth it?
Hi guys,
Recently I've dived into the world of spell and grammar checkers and discovered that there is still no 100% correct automatic spell checking even for English.
I know Grammarly and it's a good product actually but not perfect, so is it worth to build something similar with lower price?
EDIT:
I was quite misunderstood there. I do not think I can provide better quality(especially in English) however it's not so difficult to build such tool because there a lot of open sourced checkers, you just need it to surround it with pretty interface and/or killer features like encryption
Thanks
Just think this - Grammarly with all the funds can't get to 100% with all the devs. Can you?
Also, check Grammarly premium - it checks much more than the free one.
But yeah, I think there is always a space for more tools like that. Especially encrypted one (the one that cannot associate user with text checked).
As long as it creates value, go ahead and build it! Remember, you only need 1% of the market to make a difference.
Would you consider yourself to be world class in NLP, computational linguistics or some AI discipline?
What is your plan to succeed where Grammarly, not to mention MS and Google, hasn't yet?
Plan is to try open-sourced checkers build service around it and after it improve quality.
I have a feeling that it's impossible to kept validation rules in secret for so long and grammarly competes with these open-sourced checkers right now.
If Grammarly is not perfect with $110M in funding, 220 employees and 10 years in business. How do you think you can make a better grammar spell checker?
I always assumed they spent 99% of their budget on Youtube ads, so there's not much left over to make a decent product :)
Thanks God Figma didn't ask such questions before they beat Sketch :)
I agree with you, I can't.
But, there are several reasons to try:
If you could build a tool as good as Grammarly for German, I'd buy it (I am already paying for Grammarly). But I think the idea of using open source tools will not work because the support for other languages is usually quite bad compared to English.