After the Deadline Acquired by Auttomatic

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30 points·moses1400··9 comments

I think PG would be the first to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that while being accepted to YC is a strong indicator of future success, a much stronger indicator is relentless drive and determination. This is clearly a case of the latter. Congratulations!

"Better Spealing" need After The Deadline (http://afterthedeadline.com/).

Congrats Guys, being rejected by YC is not a curse.

So, now the spelling and style checker has a name that looks like a typo?

[edit] OK, it looks like it _is_ a typo. Automattic is misspelled incorrectly in this thread. And no, that is not redundant.

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One of the things we're doing is downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary. Trying to keep up on some of these Web 2.0 names/terms.

A tool like AtD isn't meant to be a portable websters / virtual grammar nut--it's meant to act as an automated set of eyes and help you spot errors that you didn't intend to make.

"...downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary."

That's awesome. Tools like MS Word have vocabularies that somehow seem devoid of any geek terminology. Your tools fixes that. Cool.

he was referring to the actual typo in the headline: "Auttomatic" instead of the correct "Automattic", he wasn't talking about why it had two t's in general

cross link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811860

"I’m thankful we had that interview though and was encouraged to make the first cut." (check grammar: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp)

What ever happened to eat your own dog food?

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