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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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645 points ReadCarlBarks | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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lurk2 ◴[21 Jun 25 07:03 UTC] No.44335272[source]▶
Who is the target market is for Grammarly? Working professionals who speak English as a second language?
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m00dy ◴[21 Jun 25 07:07 UTC] No.44335300[source]▶
People who haven't heard of LLMs
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1. akazantsev ◴[21 Jun 25 08:03 UTC] No.44335637[source]▶
LLMs are not nice to use for spell checking. I do not want to read a wall of text from LLM just to find a missed article somewhere and I want to receive feedback as I type.

Also, once I asked LLM to check the message. It said everything looked fine and made a copy of the message in its response with one sentence in the middle removed.

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2. SilverSlash ◴[21 Jun 25 09:22 UTC] No.44336011[source]▶
I haven't used Grammarly but for simple things like spelling mistakes, missed articles, or punctuation, wouldn't even Google Docs be enough?