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Props…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"3040575","volandovengo","nice job! nice design to streamline proofreading.",{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Students and people needing proofreading of documents.","commenter",[64,68],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"3040692","glimcat","Only taking input by text box is pretty bad. You need to be able to accept common word processor file formats. Targeting students is also ethically questionable. Planning to open…",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"3041429","lpolovets","Cool service! To echo a few other comments, I'd love to see examples. Specifically, I hope examples could explain the following: 1) What kind of changes are suggested? Spelling…",{"value":73,"source":62,"evidence":74},"Priced per word with quality tiers (good, great, excellent) and an instant quote.",[75,79,83],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"3041010","jmcannon","Dividing by quality \"Good, Great, and Excellent\" is weird to me. What metric distinguishes the different options? If I only check \"Good,\" will you edit my text while watching…",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"3041052","jpulgarin","There are a few but I'm confident we have one of the lowest price points per word (if not the lowest). A google search for \"proofreading service\" turns up a few.",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},[85],{"value":86,"source":62,"evidence":87},"Ruby on Rails",[88],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"3041327","systemtrigger","Congrats on launch. The instant price calculator is slick. I notice it's on Rails. Shoot for an API and a Wordpress plugin. 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Is this service farmed out to Mechanical Turk with the supposition that more eye is equal to higher quality? Or do you legitimately have qualified individuals…",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"3041002","fishtoaster","I agree. A turk-based proofreading system might not be a bad idea- a few layers of suggestion verification and you could get a pretty good first-pass proofreading out of it.…",{"value":123,"source":62,"evidence":124},"Student-focused marketing and quote are ethically questionable.",[125,129],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"3040738","dprice1","``` > As a student, I couldn't stand my required english courses. > Textlaundry has helped me to improve my writing immensely > and now I'm getting fantastic grades. The best…",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"value":131,"source":62,"evidence":132},"Typos and copied terms of service text.",[133,137],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"3041782","daviddaviddavid","There is a glaring typo on the front page. 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Though before I pay, it would be nice to see some examples…",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"3040809","glfafn","Would be interested for such service but like others mentioned you need to add some examples of what you guys can do.",{"value":154,"source":62,"evidence":155},"Only text box input; no file uploads.",[156],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},[158,168,172,177],{"value":159,"source":62,"evidence":160},"Show examples of proofread work.",[161,164,167],{"id":162,"by":81,"text":163},"3041067","Thanks bigethan, we keep hearing this and are going to put up some examples up.",{"id":165,"by":81,"text":166},"3041040","This is a great idea, we'll put up some examples of our work up soon!",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"value":169,"source":62,"evidence":170},"Add file upload support for word processor formats.",[171],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"value":173,"source":62,"evidence":174},"Offer an API or WordPress\u002FGmail plugin.",[175,176],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},{"value":178,"source":62,"evidence":179},"Clarify what good, great and excellent mean.",[180,184],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"3041542","biftek","I would word it differently then. 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When did you launch it?",{"value":202,"source":62,"evidence":203},"What kinds of changes are suggested?",[204],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},[206,213,220,227],{"value":207,"source":62,"evidence":208},"Gengo",[209],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"3041059","KERNEL2","http:\u002F\u002Fmygengo.com\u002F",{"value":214,"source":62,"evidence":215},"serv.io edit service",[216],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"3041752","caffo","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.serv.io\u002Fedit - 1.3c per word.",{"value":221,"source":62,"evidence":222},"ShinyEnglish cover letter editing",[223],{"id":224,"by":225,"text":226},"3041208","dougunplugged","I run http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ShinyEnglish.com for a smaller niche: cover letters.",{"value":228,"source":62,"evidence":229},"College writing centers",[230],{"id":231,"by":232,"text":233},"3041155","baddox","Colleges provide \"writing centers\" where people (presumably upperclassmen in a relevant degree program) offer proofreading. 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