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Show HN: Poets Know It – A literature network for poets to share and collaborate
- jaydubb1234 10y agoHappy to answer your questions, if anyone is curious about this project. Feedback is wanted as well, thanks guys.
- rijoja 10y agoI'm not to fond of the icons. But the spinning wheel is sort of fun.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoThanks, currently we are still beta testing and trying new thing out
- paublyrne 10y agoI didn't finish signing up. Why should 'Where are you from?' be a required field? There is a lot of information being requested considering I dont know what the app is or does because there is no explanation on the landing page.
- jaydubb1234 10y ago“Where are you from?” is a required field because it allows our members to network & interact with members in particular regions of the world.
- paublyrne 10y agoOK but maybe this should be 'Where are you based?'
- Isamu 10y agoWhat is a literature network? How would a poet use this?
- jaydubb1234 10y agoA literature network is an online community for artist of all kinds (poets, authors, published writers, journalists, educators, etc.) to share and collaborate their work/pieces with other registered members.
- bbctol 10y agoWhat is the project?
- jaydubb1234 10y agoCurrently a website for the poetry community, app coming soon
- zitterbewegung 10y agoRight clicking is disabled on the site. Real turn off.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoWe want to prevent from stealing (copy/paste) other members work
- another-dave 10y agoThat's impossible though — for example in Chrome, (⌥ ⌘ I) opens DevTools & I can copy whatever I like.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoTouche, average users still havent discovered devTools
- zitterbewegung 10y agoAverage users will get frustrated that they can't right click.
- burncycle 10y agoAnd Hacker News is the place to find those people.
- gglitch 10y agoI'm interested, but clicking "Back to Poets Know It" redirects me to the login page I'm clicking from.
- MaxfordAndSons 10y agoUpon signing up I immediately received several email notifications for default occurrences (a friend request from the creator, a private message from the creator, invitation to a group) - this isn't a great user experience, most people don't like getting email notifications en mass like this, especially for a thing they just signed up for to try out. Also when I went to settings to try to turn off email notifications, all but one set of the radio buttons to toggle them were missing. As a poet I would love to see a non-spammy poetry based social site take off. Best of luck getting there.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoWe will work on reducing the amount of email to appear less spammy
- lisardo 10y agoSign up with 100 fields before seeing any content?
- lexap 10y agoWhat is it?
- jaydubb1234 10y agoSite for poets around the world to share their work
- lexap 10y agoWhat do poets know? Wit? Is this an AI bot feedlot?
- mgkimsal 10y agoNo way to see anything without logging in? I'm being forced to a login/register page only.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoWe want our community to be exclusive for our members only
- mgkimsal 10y agoPerhaps showing people an example of the community before signing up might help? I was going to refer some writer friends over, but they're not the sort of folks who just give away emails without knowing what it's for. Perhaps that's who you're going after?
- jaydubb1234 10y agoWere discovering a way to implement that without giving too much of the site away
- wf 10y agoThe signup page has a steep price to pay. Maybe just setup the login and then ask for profile information once users are in? Asking for a specific date of when someone started writing is a little daunting. Maybe just have a year? Not sure what the information is for. Also the terms of service I'm agreeing to leads to a 404 ;) I've recently gotten in to writing some poetry so I'm super interested in this project! I hope you guys can really get this to kick off. edit: I would add, you need a real landing page. Something that has examples of features or results of collaboration. This is pretty similar although a microcosm of HitRecord, so maybe check that out for some inspiration.
- jaydubb1234 10y agoThanks for the feedback, we want the site/app to have an exclusivity feel to it, hence no landing page, but a description of what the site is about is underway
- wf 10y agoI get the appeal of that. I wonder though if it make sense for a website built on collaboration to be exclusive? Not that those things are mutually exclusive, but it's similar to the right click to steal issue. If people want to steal something they will, so it's not worth sacrificing the user experience here (probably); similarly, if the exclusive feel prevents people from signing up there will be less collaboration. I guess it partly comes down to what is meant by collaboration. Is it writing together? Is it just feedback like comments or Genius style annotations? I really like the idea of either. These questions and others the users had here could be answered on the landing page. If you guys are interested in more feedback as you progress feel free to hit me up!
- gallerdude 10y agoCollaboration of artists is an interesting thing, let alone it being expressed digitally.
- danthewireman 10y agoTerms of service page is a 404 error. https://www.poetsknowit.com/terms-of-service/ https://www.poetsknowit.com/terms-of-service/
- jaydubb1234 10y agoSorry about that, fixed
- anotheryou 10y agono way I'm going through a sign-up without any preview of what's inside.
- Kinnard 10y agoYou're on the front page of HN. I'd improve your sign-up flow ASAP if I were you.