Show HN: I built an open source alternative to Grammarly

15 pointsposted a year ago
by pedrok
(rewritepal.com)

16 Comments

wheresmyshadow

a year ago

I'm sorry for being ignorant but how does this work? Is there an LLM underneath? Does it use ChatGPT? If so, how do you maintain the privacy and how are you able to cover expenses? I'm just curious, it looks pretty great though.

pedrok

a year ago

Hey! Yeah, it runs on an open-source llama3 image, and since the requests aren’t too wild, it costs me about $2 a month to keep it up. Thanks!

wheresmyshadow

a year ago

I see, thanks for the info! I played with it for a bit and I really enjoy the results. A dark mode would be amazing to have but still great job!

pedrok

a year ago

Thank you so much for your feedback!

android521

a year ago

Could you share a bit on where you host it ? it is 8 B ,right?

pedrok

a year ago

Hi there, I utilize the Groq/Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use model. I initially hosted it on Hugging Face for some time, but eventually, I transitioned to using the Groq API directly.

8mobile

a year ago

Nice attempt to use AI as a translator, it seems to translate from English to other languages but not vice versa. Am I wrong? I will try it. Kudos for the idea rewritepal seems promising.

pedrok

a year ago

Hey there! To be honest, I haven't done much translating, but the little I did worked

android521

a year ago

Feature suggestion: it would be great if you can high hight and explain (maybe mouse over the highlighted part) how the original sentence was improved/correct grammatically.

pedrok

a year ago

Hey, I added a feature that highlights text changes. The next step is to explain why those changes were made! Thanks again for the feedback!

pedrok

a year ago

I loved the suggestion, thank you! I am gonna try to implement the highlight feature this week!

user

a year ago

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ReD_CoDE

a year ago

Please add a license to your repo, otherwise many won't check it!

pedrok

a year ago

Hey, good catch! I just added an MIT license. Thanks!

android521

a year ago

what is the difference between paraphraser and unfiltered mode?

pedrok

a year ago

Some folks wanted a way to write explicit or unfiltered stuff, like horror books, so I set up this unfiltered mode. I definitely need to make the language on that page better, but I'm not sure how to explain it clearly.