loenneQ: I was so happy to see an alternative to Grammarly here on Appsumo.
However, if the founder Alex is using his tool himself, then the tool is useless.
I was looking at one of his comments (https://share.boxx.dk/1jllc3) to a review - an even as a non-native English speaker, I could see spelling errors and grammar errors.
I threw his short comment into my free version of Grammarly and their tool caught no less than 8 errors:
https://share.boxx.dk/auwmpk
Alex - the hard question here: Are you not using your own tool or is your tool not working?
(not trying to be evil and normally I would never point out people's spelling errors - but in this case when you're selling spell checking, you can't have this many errors yourself. It's untrustworthy)
On one hand, you must have had a computer issue because all these errors are spotted by Linguix on my system.
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZDmq3kZsnjtcnxlKtVg8ty8i0o3l7U5BmNy
On the other hand... terribly sorry to deflate you, but Grammarly is far from being perfect either.
My point being, if you personally relied on those corrections only, your text would still be far from "perfect".
1. sometimes - correct
2. user's feedback - "article" suggestion is questionable/wrong, they are not open to the feedback of "a/the" single user. I would use possessive plural: "users' feedback" without article.
3. poin - typo, machines are correct
4. to day - "spelling" suggestion is questionable/wrong. I doubt the author was referring to "today" as in "Wednesday", but rather to "to date" (meaning up to the present time), so it is not a spelling mistake but a lexis/meaning one.
5. founder - missing comma, AI is correct
6. plagiarism checker - "article" suggestion acceptable but it can also be questionable. If he is talking about a piece of software or portion of it ("plagiarism checker"), articles are not to be used. Eg. to open whatever document you need word/excel/powerpoint/google chrome" (not the word, the excel, the google chrome etc). But machines do have a point to ask about this, as "plagiarism checker" not being yet so well known as piece of software or part of one.
7. needs - AI is correctly asking for subject-verb agreement. Thumbs up on this, I'm impressed :)
8. on - machines are right to flag it as wrongly used instead of nothing or "about".
However.
A big boo-boo that both Linguix and Grammarly missed is the use of auxiliary "do" after the modal "MIGHT" (i.e. "we MIGHT *do* not have") which is highly disappointing to me, as this is a pretty mathematical rule for negating modals:
subject + modal + not.
Therefore, because in English we never ever have these four consecutive words as such: "we might do not", while Linguix is forgivable (being "newly born") old papa Grammarly seems to still be in need of learning err... grammar.
My conclusion?
You cannot rely 100% on machines correcting language (yet), especially when you write long (emotional) phrases.
Linguix, grammarly and others are improving fast, but for now, I would suggest you rely on them when using shorter phrases, more technical, scientific, more "binary language" to say so.
They'll probably never correct artistic language, poetry etc, but they're still doing a great job - if not perfecting your language, at least improving it. :)
Best luck with your businesses!
Did you check your connection or smth?
I got the exact same 8 corrections on Linguix.
Just to be fair.
I don't think he used his tool on that reply.
Did you test the reply on Linquix? It gives same results with Grammarly, no difference.