On the cusp of launch - an iOS Keyboard app that improves your writing

[adnanshr]

We're at the pre-launch of a keyboard app that comes with built in interactive thesaurus and paraphrasing tool.

Just wanted to get some opinions from people at this stage now that the product is shaping up.

PerfectKey – Craft the perfect text

The process of looking up words or sentences is super easy - just tap from a list and the word or the sentence will get replaced

Any thoughts/criticisms/advice?

Thanks.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Interesting, did you find a need for this in your own experience?

 

[adnanshr]

Interesting, did you find a need for this in your own experience?

Thanks for your response.

It started from me personally feeling the need. I talked to a few people close to me and to some people in facebook groups showing rough sketches, and the feedback was very positive.

It is difficult to opine on something based on an idea without actually using the product, so I thought I'd just create a first version and see where it goes.

I also think this is one of those things where people wouldn't know they needed it before they used it. Not writing well enough isn't a problem you consciously realise, but you do once you use an app like this and begin to see you are being more articulate in general.

The challenge now is, I have to pin down a certain group of users to start marketing the product to. In my mind everyone could be a potential user since all us do a lot of writing on our phone, but I know shouting to the whole population isn't the way to go, atleast initially.

 

[Kirk84]

English is not my first language and not even my second, so I would be definitely interested in using something like this. I recently discovered Grammarly which was a game changer for me. My GF works for an US startup, so she's been a Grammarly power user for a while and absolutely loves it. I think your service is very similar. I just discovered Grammarly has an iOS version that I have not used before. How is your solution different?

I think because the market is so incredibly huge, this might be a big problem for you, as you don't have the budget to market it accordingly. I suggest you niche down drastically to make your market entry easier.

 

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[adnanshr]

English is not my first language and not even my second, so I would be definitely interested in using something like this. I recently discovered Grammarly which was a game changer for me. My GF works for an US startup, so she's been a Grammarly power user for a while and absolutely loves it. I think your service is very similar. I just discovered Grammarly has an iOS version that I have not used before. How is your solution different?

I think because the market is so incredibly huge, this might be a big problem for you, as you don't have the budget to market it accordingly. I suggest you niche down drastically to make your market entry easier.

Hey mate.

Good question. Grammarly mainly focuses on correcting grammar mistakes in your writing. It has a built in thesaurus too but a basic one and shows only a few words

The main focus of mine is not to fix your mistakes but improve your writing. As a result, the thesaurus here is more exhaustive, and a paraphrasing tool is there to suggest alternate versions of your written sentences. Does that answer your question?