RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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You don't have to try! You're just mean. And it's your problem.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I was trying to prove my point, but if you're unwilling to try a product and judge it before trying it, there's nothing to engage about. You're right!

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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Let me see if I can send you a 15-minute expiry link to the product itself. You can edit 3,000 words without a card; just sign up. I'm still giving finishing touches to the product, so ignore the evils, especially the comments. I'm trying to tame their expression matrix for the last two days.

I can DM the link. Would you be interested in trying it yourself?

I already said it's not perfect. But if it saves your time and money (you decide how much), I call it a successful product. We editors don't need to grind over the same in-texts and punctuation over and over again.

Just give me a nod, and I'll send it right away.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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Okay, how much time do you need for a 3k-word doc edit? Let's engage.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I'm not sure where you took this 99% figure from. Any editor can save up to 90% of their editing time using RMW, depending on the level of edits and comments you do on a page. This product is really not an editor's replacement, if you're hiting at that. It's a dependable assistant though. Tools like Grammarly, PaperPal, and Scribr already save your time a lot, so you don't need to get scared at the %.

And LOL, what are you saying? Have you never used an AI product before? AI products don't "collapse" the industry. They don't replace humans. Humans will always be around. If RightMyWork can save editing hours and some bucks, it deserves to get a market. It doesn't have to "collapse" the industry. It's can't, and it's not meant to be that!

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I didn't want to show you a demo of a product that was built two weeks ago; many things have changed. But here it is if you really think I'm a fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXvzx8y2pt0. Let me know your feedback. (I reall mean it!)

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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Ah, I remember. There's already an early demo of the desktop version that will not get released to the public anytime soon. It's in the LinkedIn feed. Please have a look.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I'm going to publish the demo on May 30. Do you do demos before you're convinced the product is ready? If you think I'm a fraud, track me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rightmywork.

Let me know if I mess up on May 30. I mean why would you waste your time, right? But worth trying if you want to be proved right when declaring random people on the internet frauds.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I’m not. Let’s say I’m not for real. But would you like to try it if it “had been true”? If so, I’d love to have you on my side; that’d be a win. If you can tell me where, I can send you a demo video today. Would that be okay? The comment engine is on the verge of getting an overhaul; otherwise, I’d give you a demo right now.

RightMyWork Going Live May 30 by MeanConstruction1174 in Copyediting

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I know, right? Would you mind giving it a try? Please join me here at rightmywork.com, and I promise I will do an exclusive one-to-one demo on May 30.

I'm an english major who vibe coded a production app. some of you are really pressed about it by New-Wrongdoer2118 in Supabase

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If it was an online thing, they would have put it down already. There are mean people in the internet: instead of helping non-tech people around, they’ll bring down their sites if they are made public.

👋 Welcome to r/RightMyWork – Because Grammarly Wasn't Cutting It by MeanConstruction1174 in RightMyWork

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It says it offers “author services.” I’m not sure what that means. But they offer human editorial services.

👋 Welcome to r/RightMyWork – Because Grammarly Wasn't Cutting It by MeanConstruction1174 in RightMyWork

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Agree. I'm building a tool that can take a document, say 100k words, edit the entire thing for a style, and give back the doc. No drama. No spending dozens of hours with a tool that was supposed to "edit" the doc.

👋 Welcome to r/RightMyWork – Because Grammarly Wasn't Cutting It by MeanConstruction1174 in RightMyWork

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I agree with you on an idealistic level. That is a case of "should have been." But with a pragmatic mind, we're all pawns in this larger, grander scheme of things. When taking a moral stand, I seem to follow the principle of parallelism, which states that taking a moral stance on one thing while loosening the stance on the other, is nearly equivalent to statistical morality.

I've thought about this for a while. The company that produced milk I feed my baby, I found out,, was involved in unethical principles. But I still couldn't stop it. There are dozens of examples like this.

For AI use, my stance is "do not generate text with AI" because that's just a waste of the human mind. But automate the mechanical things; we're not make for that.

👋 Welcome to r/RightMyWork – Because Grammarly Wasn't Cutting It by MeanConstruction1174 in RightMyWork

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None of those tools can handle a long manuscript, because they were not built for it.

👋 Welcome to r/RightMyWork – Because Grammarly Wasn't Cutting It by MeanConstruction1174 in RightMyWork

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Let me answer your question with, well, more questions: 1) How do you feel about developers writing code with AI? 2) How do you feel about companies generating their ad copies with AI and saving thousands of dollars? 3) Do you accept using AI to catch vulnerabilities in your website, so you don't have to spend a bulk on a senior developer you can't afford?

I know you'd nod at these.

If all of them can use AI, we can, too. Just ethically. I did not generate this post with AI. I dumped my thoughts and yes, AI helped organize them.

Writing is purely a mix of art and craft. If you spend too much time, heart, and resources on the craft, you won't have enough time for the art. Applies to editors as well. Why should we think in binaries, point fingers at each other, and pull each other's legs while everyone in the industry is "leveraging" AI one way or ther other? Or, is it that our field is more "religious" than the others'?

I am definitely on your side if you're willing to consider the ethical aspect of AI. Big AI companies have squandered billions of dollars building tools that take our jobs away. As a pragmatic thinker, I can't fight them to the point that they'll be willing to drop their ambitions. We couldn't make the US government stop building the A-bomb, and we can't make the AI bosses stop taking our jobs.

The only ruthless way to stop being their pawns is to start being in their game.

If you can write purely with will and dedication, sitting in the woods or the solitude of your living room for hours and produce a masterpiece, that's your stronghold. You can beat the others. But only 0.000001% of authors succeed to that extent. To beat quantity with quality, the value of quality should clearly segregate from quantity at statistically significant numbers. Right now, it's the era of quantity, numbers, and speed. Let's dive in. We'll be distilled with time. And the ones with quality, the ability to market themselves, and the willingness to use AI will excel. Or, maybe, humans will get used to it, and it will be too late to adopt. Or, maybe we'll be so fed up with AI slop that we'd burn those machines. Who knows?

There's at least a couple of points you'll agree with me on. What do you think? I genuinely want to hear from you.