Hello PH community!😽 I’m May, co-founder of Qordoba. So excited to be launching something here for the first time. For YEARS I have felt like a PH lurker, never brave enough to share what I was working on. I have so admired makers’ courage to put things out there, and now it’s our turn.💪 Thank you for building such a safe and welcoming community. So, ⭐HOW DID WE GET HERE!⭐ Like many people, we were initially building something else. In that journey, we tried dozens of different versions of positioning and messaging in our quest for product market fit. We didn’t ultimately find it, but did find a problem that we encountered over and over: frequently, people at Qordoba were talking about the product in a different way, using different words to describe our value and what we do. It is hard to come up with a message that sticks in your customer’s brain — one that is differentiated enough from your competitors that after talking to you they can remember what’s different about YOU. And these messages come down to saying the same thing, the same way, every time. Then there is the minutiae, tiny but important for 🤓credibility 🤓with potential customers: emails you send to prospects always being well-written, customer support ticket responses always to the point, and a consistent formatting and writing style across all the things that a customer would read from you. This is our mission, to help companies communicate better with their customers and potential customers. 💦The Solution So, what can Qordoba do today? Content control freaks, we got you. Writing Styleguide: ✅Hundreds of variations to customize your writing style, from date formats to semicolons to the Oxford comma. Have no idea wtf that is? Don’t fret; use the Qordoba default house style, which is optimized for clear and concise writing for the web and technology products. ✅The ability to customize the look and feel of your styleguide and publish it on your own domain. Terminology: ✅Define the everyday terms you use in your company. ✅Define the terms that are 🚫banned — either because they're deprecated or because a competitor has used them to death. ✅Create Common Mistakes rules: automatic corrections to the phrases that your team confuses most often. What ELSE we check your content for: ✅Clarity ✅Brevity ✅Readability ✅Gender bias ✅Toxicity ✅Plagiarism ✅Grammar and spelling 💘 Extra thanks to: @chrismessina for hunting us! Have loved your product feedback and encouragement along the way. 🌹 Special offer for the PH community 50% off your first year with us if you upgrade to a paid annual plan! Really looking forward to your comments and feedback — we’re just getting started and your feedback is a 🎁. Write soon, May

Ironically, the product website mentions 'styleguide'; I've never seen the term written in any other way than 'style guide', be it in known in The Chicago Manual of Style, the Microsoft Style Guide, or any other of the well-known guides that I've seen. The description on this page mentions 'style guides' while the first-posted discussion here, by one of the makers of this product, mentions 'styleguides'; consistency is important in (technical) writing. I'm not trying to say that this product is bad—I've not yet tried it—but something which is supposed to supplant or add value to writing shouldn't fail this easily. PS. If I made this product I'd use 'AI-writing assistant' instead of 'AI writing assistant' as per most American-English grammar rules.

Great alternative to Grammarly for companies.

Haha, nicely spotted @niklaspivic666. Still, this product aims to solve a problem that virtually every team has. I wish I had this five years ago. Looking forward to using this!

@mayhabib Congrats on the launch and thank you for sharing your story! Aside from technical writing, I wrote short stories, flash fiction, and even tried crafting a couple of screenplays. Formatting and editing each genre has been always a nightmare for me. I have used both Grammarly and The hemingwayapp for years. Beyond the AI and the collaboration aspect, how does Qordoba stand out here? Also, in this era, the influencer economy is booming. Most influencers' social media accounts are managed by whole teams. Is Qordoba customizable enough to satisfy those small targeted but profitable niches?

Love what you're doing @mayhabib + team! In my mind, Qordoba helps the owners of the style guide extend themselves. Let's face it—so many people write on behalf of the company publicly these days. Getting consistency is one of the goals of a design system. You can help us get there with words. Random thought—this would make for a great Figma plugin 🙃

This looks awesome @mayhabib .. maybe it can replace the haggard "Voice & Tone" article in our company knowledge base 😊 I'm curious.. this *must* be a problem faced by almost every company, but I could imagine not a _priority_ for most. Who have you found to be your ideal initial customer?

Fantastic tool!

Whether they realize it or not, EVERY company and team needs Qordoba. You have many people who write on your company's behalf and represent your products to the world, so protect your business by making sure everyone is always using the latest messaging, speaks in a single brand voice, and doesn't make you look unprofessional with stupid errors.

My company is a team of just 10 people, but tone consistency is already a problem for us. This is a great idea. Excited to try it!

Congrats on the launch! The platform looks great and I'm looking forward to being on the receiving end of clear corporate comms as a consumer :)

I designed the voice and tone for Webflow and I'm the only team member with extensive content strategy and copywriting experience. And it's pretty common to hear folks say "If only we could clone you" or "You're just one person." Qordoba is the closest thing to a me-cloner I've found on the market. And it's _far_ more than a Grammarly alternative. It's got Grammarly's feature set, sure — but the brand-specific style options and its gendered language detection make it vastly more valuable. Highly recommend that any brand that cares about voice, tone, and style add Qordoba to its stack ASAP.

I've played with Qordoba a bit and really like it. There's different value for writing professionals vs. extended team members who often have to write as part of their role but don't particularly want to think about writing and language. For the first group, Qordoba is a great way to continuously update your styleguide (you sold me on one word, May) and analyze your writing in the context of your declared style choices. (That latter part is especially helpful if you're in a tech company driven by metrics. You might be excited that you've standardized the company's language, but if you can't produce a number to prove it, nobody else will care.) For the non-writing professionals, Qordoba helps them out and also helps you out when you're editing their work -- they'll respect your edits more if it's all codified.

Qordoba is changing the world writing style. I can imagine how qordoba app can improve each of us in our personal l and professional life. Love to use it everyday

Love it!

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Replaced Gram-marly… My new favorite tool!

Beats Grammarly in performance, price, & prettiness!