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After years with Grammarly, I wanted a simpler, cheaper way to improve my writing. So I built Scramble, a Chrome extension that uses an LLM for writing enhancem
by zlwaterfield 2y ago
After years with Grammarly, I wanted a simpler, cheaper way to improve my writing. So I built Scramble, a Chrome extension that uses an LLM for writing enhancements.
Key features:
- Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local)
- Pre-defined prompts for various improvements
- Highlight text and wait for suggestions
- Currently fixed to GPT-4-turbo
Future plans: add LLM provider/model choice, custom prompts, bug fixes, and improve default prompts.
It's probably buggy, but I'll keep improving it. Feedback welcome.
GitHub: https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble
- _HMCB_ 2y agoThis is awesome. Can’t wait to install it and put it through its paces.
- compootr 2y agohow much does it cost in a normal day?
- TheRealPomax 2y agoDoes it work in "not a browser" though? Because that's the last place I need this, I really want this in Typora, VS Code, etc. instead.
- zlwaterfield 2y agoNot right now. Looking into a mac app. This was just a quick and dirty first go at it.
- TheRealPomax 2y agoMakes sense. Strongly hope it won't be a "mac app" but a cross-platform application instead though, nothing worse than having a great mac app that you can't use 50% of the time because your work computer's a mac and your personal computer's a windows machine because you like playing games.
- kylebenzle 2y agoWithout marketing speak can I ask why anyone would have a need for a service like grammerly, I always thought it was odd trying to sell a subscription based spell checker (AI is just a REALLY good spell checker).
- gazereth 2y agoNon-native speakers find it useful since it doesn't just fix spelling but also fixes correctness, directness, tone and tense. It gives you an indication of how your writing comes across, e.g. friendly, aggressive, assertive, polite. English can be a very nuanced language - easy to learn, difficult to master. Grammarly helps with that.
- rlayton2 2y agoI'm a big fan of Grammarly and have been using it, and paying for it, for years. The advantage is not spell checking. It is grammar and style improvements. It tells you things like "this language is informal", or "this is a better word for that".
- mhuffman 2y agoThe "grammar" part, at least in a professional setting. You might be shocked at how many people will write an email pretty much like they would talk to friends at a club or send a text message (complete with emojis!) or just generally butcher professional correspondence.
- dotancohen 2y agoSo it may be more attractive to employers to check their employees' output, rather than an individual checking his own?
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoNo, it's also useful to check your own writing. I've used it as both an Editor and a Writer.
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- lhousa 2y agoRookie question: the openAPI endpoint costs extra right? Not something that comes with chatGPT or chatGPT+.
- paraknight 2y agoYes
- Szpadel 2y agoyes, but gpt-4o-mini costs very little so you probably will spend well under $1/month
- miguelaeh 2y agoI don't think the point here should be the cost, but the fact that you are sending everything you write to OpenAI to train their models on your information. The option of a local model allows you to preserve the privacy of what you write. I like that.
- nickthegreek 2y agoOpenai does not train models on data that comes in from the API. https://openai.com/policies/business-terms/ https://openai.com/policies/business-terms/
- punchmesan 2y agoAssuming for the moment that they aren't saying that with their fingers crossed behind their back, that doesn't change the fact that they store the inputs they receive and swear they'll protect it (Paraphrasing from the Content section of the above link). Even if it's not fed back into the LLM, the fact that they store the inputs anywhere for a period of time is a huge privacy risk -- after all a breach is a matter of "when", not "if".
- zlwaterfield 2y agoCorrect but I'm going to loom into a locally running LLM so it would be free.
- xdennis 2y ago> Key features: - Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local) Sorry, but we have a fundamental disagreement on terms here. Sending requests to OpenAI is not 100% local. The OpenAI API is not free or open source. By your definition, if you used the Grammarly API for this extension it would be a 100% local, open source alternative to Grammarly too.
- zlwaterfield 2y agoAgree, I want to add a local LLM set up. The wording there isn't great.