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by garrettdimon
3218 days ago
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As a Grammarly user, the thing that's been most surprising is that there's no option for an API to integrate with other tools. I guess with the growth they've experienced, there's not a lot of pressure to expand it, but it seems like a world of opportunity. I'm sure there are some good reasons, like the editing experience or API abuse, but their tool simply isn't the best overall writing experience. To be able to use Grammarly within Sublime text or other editors would be incredible. As it stands, because you're forced to copy and past content over into their editor, the workflow is the biggest drawback. It's really handy in textareas on the web, but I've struggled to integrate it into my writing workflow because of the copy/paste process. Writing mainly in Markdown doesn't make it any more elegant either. |
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I've been meaning to have a play with it as a potential replacement for Grammarly before the special offer subscription of that is due to renew in a couple of months (though if I keep the special offer rate it is probably just as well for me to stick with Grammarly).
It is Java based which may put off a lot of projects from including it directly in their desktop or mobile products, but they could host their own instance and have their applications submit data to that. Assuming the extra admin (keeping the service running & up-to-date, and monitoring/enforcing API-key use if they don't want the service to become de-facto public once other developers notice it exists) and hosting costs would not be too high, of course.