“We don’t hide the fact that we have an office in Ukraine… In fact, we managed to make this product because we started in Ukraine and found talented specialists,” Lytvyn said. This rather large number can be attributed to the presence of the company’s office in Kyiv and its regular attendance at events organized by the Ukrainian tech community. Ukrainians account for 7 percent of Grammarly users. More than half are developers situated in a Kyiv office, while the rest of the team is in San Francisco. The team started with 10 people, but now the company employs 150. The service can also automatically detect what type of English the client wants to use, American or British, and it fixes mistakes accordingly. When a user wants to apply for a job, or write a report, then they buy the premium product,” Lytvyn said. “If a user just wants to write an email to his friend, the free version is enough. This version costs from $29.99 monthly to $139.95 yearly.
Signing up for a premium version guarantees a more complex check-up. In this case, the service checks the most obvious common mistakes. One can register on Grammarly’s website and check texts for free. The service was developed in 2009 for academic needs, but later, Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko, the co-founders of Grammarly, expanded the circle of potential customers and developed it to serve anyone on the Internet who wants to make their writing flawless.
Over half of them are native speakers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries. The service checks more than 250 grammar, spelling and punctuation rules, and has 10 million unique users. Grammarly is a web-based service where one can upload a text in English and have it scanned for errors within a matter of seconds. Thanks to two Ukrainians, the world now has an online grammar checker for English writing that is used by millions of people.
Good writing is a sign of knowledged and professionalism.
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