Show HN: Mini tool to check the copy of your website

[laurinw]

Hi HN,

I spend last weekend improving the copy of my landing page. In that process, I came across a bunch of articles prescribing which words to use and which ones not to use.

I found it tedious to check for for the words manually so I created a tiny app to do it for me. Right now it checks for the use of hedge, weasel and filler words. I also went through a lot of marketing websites to check words they recommend and suggest not to use.

It's very bare bone but I am curious to get some opinions about how to improve it.

[ohforsure]

Also got a Heroku application error but loaded on fourth try! Pretty neat and would love to run our site through this once 0.2 is ready.

[xz18r]

I get a Heroku application error, but very curious!

[xz18r]

Ok third time it worked. It gives a lot of words to change for my company homepage. Some feedback:

- spelling: it recommends a lot of 'did you means' but I meant none of them. Maybe you can compile a list with 'typical website words' such as (looking at my results) FAQ, "&", whitepaper, GDPR, EULA, etc. Also, it recommends to change words with apostrophes before it e.g. < 'Bring your own device' > --> did you mean bring and device

- low converting words: this is a cool concept! However, most of the words singled out CAN be weasel words or filler words or whatever, but not in their current context. E.g. "as well as" -> the well isn't a filler word there. E.g. ""Save up to 80%" -> up isn't a weasel word here. Et cetera.

Overall: very nice project, curious to see how it evolves!

[laurinw]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I will integrate it into version 0.2! I will exclude some of the more obvious false positives such as the apostrophes you mentioned. My thought was to overshoot in the beginning for the false positives and adjust later on.

[d--b]

I think I broke it