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Show HN: Poets Know It – A literature network for poets to share and collaborate

poetsknowit.com

15 pointsjaydubb123435 comments

The 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.

Thanks 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

I 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!

No way to see anything without logging in? I'm being forced to a login/register page only.

We want our community to be exclusive for our members only

Perhaps 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?

Were discovering a way to implement that without giving too much of the site away

You're on the front page of HN. I'd improve your sign-up flow ASAP if I were you.

no way I'm going through a sign-up without any preview of what's inside.

Sorry about that, fixed

Happy to answer your questions, if anyone is curious about this project.

Feedback is wanted as well, thanks guys.

I'm not to fond of the icons. But the spinning wheel is sort of fun.

Thanks, currently we are still beta testing and trying new thing out

I 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.

“Where are you from?” is a required field because it allows our members to network & interact with members in particular regions of the world.

OK but maybe this should be 'Where are you based?'

What is a literature network? How would a poet use this?

A 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.

What is the project?

Currently a website for the poetry community, app coming soon

Right clicking is disabled on the site. Real turn off.

We want to prevent from stealing (copy/paste) other members work

That's impossible though — for example in Chrome, (⌥ ⌘ I) opens DevTools & I can copy whatever I like.

Touche, average users still havent discovered devTools

Average users will get frustrated that they can't right click.

And Hacker News is the place to find those people.

I'm interested, but clicking "Back to Poets Know It" redirects me to the login page I'm clicking from.

Upon 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.

We will work on reducing the amount of email to appear less spammy

Collaboration of artists is an interesting thing, let alone it being expressed digitally.

What is it?

Site for poets around the world to share their work

What do poets know? Wit? Is this an AI bot feedlot?

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