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How did you come up with the idea for spellr.us – what is the “spellr.us story”?

April 26, 2017IDEA spellr.us story

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How did you come up with the idea for spellr.us – what is the “spellr.us story”?

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During March 2008 the founder of spellr.us made a casual comment about how “it would be really good if we could automate the spell checking of some of our clients’ websites.” Our developers took on the challenge and developed a prototype over the weekend. We invited one of our clients into our office and we gave him a demonstration of the prototype. The spellr.us prototype identified several significant and many obscure spelling mistakes on his site. Our client was very impressed. The next day we branded the product and contacted TechCrunch – the famous start up blog – to tell them about our new groundbreaking product. Within 4 hours TechCrunch ran a story on us and beta tester registration requests started coming through thick and fast. The spellr.us adventure had begun!