Comments on post “Typewriter”
Shahed Khan
@_shahedk · Founder @ Loom. Prev @ Upfront VC
Looks like an awesome service that I'd love to use. Currently using Grammarly for proofreading, auto correct, etc.
My only drawback is the price. $3.33 per word? Seems ridiculously expensive, no?
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Nandini Jammi
@nandoodles · Growth @ ProdPad
@_shahedk I'm going to defend the cost. It takes a lot of time to fix crappy writing. Worth it.
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Thomas Burgess
@ninjinka · Creator of Material Design Palette Deck
@_shahedk Yeah, that's way more than I would pay a writer. The highest writers are generally paid is twenty-five cents a word (it's normally lower). Seems like you would be better off just hiring a great writer, or pretty much any other editor.
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Kyle McCarthy
@kylemccarthyism · Lead the marketing & growth at Nurx
@_shahedk I use Grammarly too. I might make the switch to Typewriter though. Looks awesome!
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bud parr
@budparr
@_shahedk I didn't even see the price. I always assume if the price isn't right up front, it's too expensive for me.
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Joshua Dance
@joshdance · Engineer, Product Manager, athlete
@_shahedk That is 832$ for a 250 word blog post. Seems way too high.
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Aaron Dancer
@aaron7pm · CEO @ Bytecamp.io, Lead SE @ SSL.com
@_shahedk Yeah it's way too expensive. It takes time to fix crappy writing, but not $3.33 a word. 300 words, or $1,000 only covers a page of your average book. $1,000 per page? That's pretty ridiculous
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Eliot Peper
@eliotpeper · author
@nandoodles @_shahedk Agreed. You can hire a cheap writer, and get a commodity result. But great writing scales. If you want a someone who can craft a story that resonates, it's going to cost real money. It's analogous to writing software. Crappy code is cheap, beautiful code is $.
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noah rosenberg
@nrose · founded Pikazo, now a new thing
@joshdance @_shahedk What would you pay to get your blog post read by the most influential possible people in your space? What if instead of thinking of this as a cost-per-word you looked at it as a value-per-magic-bullet, because that's what's being offered here. Not better words. Better results.
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Ernie Smith
@shortformernie · Editor, Tedium; journalist
@nandoodles I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with that sentiment. As a guy who writes for a living, that price borders on offensive. I have a freelancer who is paid 50 cents a word, and that is considered an awesome rate.
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Arunoda Susiripala
@arunoda · Founder, kadira.io
@_shahedk Yes this is really expensive. I use https://wordy.com/ and it's affordable and has a great set of editors.
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Joshua Dance
@joshdance · Engineer, Product Manager, athlete
@nrose @_shahedk not sure I understand. Having a piece edited doesn't mean it will be read by the most influential people in a given space. It could help. I guess the whole conversation could be clarified if they had a pricing page.
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Laef ⛅
@laef · Programmer and founder, FindALostPet
@joshdance @_shahedk And of course for that price, it might actually be better to get classes on better writing (then just pass the post around your friends and family to pick up minor grammar errors)... At the same time, even if it were just a bit cheaper, it might be worth it.
I imagine that this would be better for company blog posts, perhaps more onetime affairs such as announcing a mission critical feature or product (though the inconsistency of editing between these and the more common-place posts could be distracting).
Of course, if the rich want to pay to have good editing, someone should congratulate the people who make it happen!
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Francis Lee
@sicnarftea · UnicornGO! Unlimited Graphic Design
@nrose @joshdance @_shahedk So getting a blog post (article) edited will then guarantee better results? Guess it'll be a better post, but what results are we talking about here? No doubt editing bad writing will be expensive, but what if the article was pretty good already, will it being edited at $3.33 / word really be that much better?
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Adam Harms
@_lcky · Writer, Designer
@_shahedk when I tested it, it was about 0.30 per word. Maybe you had a glitch?
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Jacob Bøtter
@boetter · Founder, author, etc.
@arunoda @_shahedk I use Wordy too, it's amazing!
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Brendan Beirne
@brendanbeirne · Strategy / product, Joojoo
@_shahedk as a sometime freelance editor I'm all for higher rates, but yeah that's really, really high. I'm guessing it was a typo and actual cost is 33 cents a word?
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Megan Matt
@meganmatt42 · Megan, Augl
@joshdance @nrose @_shahedk I agree. I'm often distracted by the typos and grammar errors in the blog posts of very influential people. For $2.50/word, I'll write your post with enough "accidental" typos to show you're busy thought leader, shooting something out on your phone.
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