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by dr_kiszonka 542 days ago
I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by. I am seriously considering spending a weekend or two on writing myself a small LLM powered clone. I think a browser extension for Gmail should be relatively easy. I am not sure about Word (desktop) and Google Docs though.
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> I think a browser extension for gmail should be relatively easy.

Hold your beer, I built that https://chatgptwriter.ai

Haha nicely done!

However, it is more expensive than Grammarly's annual plan and there is no Office app. I do like the different models, though, and it looks very polished.

Have you considered letting users add their own "writing tones"? I have a few Custom GPTs for different types of recipients. Perhaps your users would like such a feature.

> Have you considered letting users add their own "writing tones"?

Even better, I recently implemented the Prompt Template feature. You can create as many prompt templates as you like and insert them with one click. It's a recent feature, so the landing page is not updated, but you can try it for free (without adding a credit card) at https://chatgptwriter.ai/extension.

This seems to be one of those glorified ChatGPT API wrappers. Only available on Chromium, free tier is 15 corrections a month with the next recommended tier being $350 dollars a year. I think I'll pass.
> I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by.

Leadership issue.

> I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by

They switched from parse trees and rules to LLMs, presumably some things got better and some got worse