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poetreatapp.com

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Hey everyone, creator here. This app has been a huge learning opportunity as far as app design and marketing goes. The app is fairly straightforward, but I spent far more time writing releases and emails, as well as examining and critiquing each different UI. I'm planning on writing a report in two weeks on the success or failure of my efforts, with detailed metrics on conversions, retention, and sales.

I'd love to answer any questions or address any feedback you might have.

Looks awesome, it's well explained on the site, the icon is gorgeous (though it instantly reminded me of Procreate --- might want to check that), the UI is sufficiently "next-generation" (part flat + part iOS 6 = iOS 7?).

However I don't understand the rhyme drag&drop interface. Is it a mere reminder of how poetry & rhymes work? Or is it supposed to reorganize my verses at the same time (cause it doesn't)?

The drag/drop part is just supposed to change the rhyme suggestions. So if you you're doing AABB and on line #4, it finds the last word in line #3 and rhymes with that. However if you changed to ABAB line #4 suggestions will now look at line #2. I had a really hard time figuring out a good way to explain that, in the UI, description, and landing page. Agreed its a little confusing. Any suggestions on how to improve that?

Oh right, I just dismissed the suggestions bar altogether as I wasn't composing a poem in English... Well then I think it makes sense as is.

Looks good, but an online version to try it out would be nice. I'm not going to write a poem on my phone (and I've got an android phone).

The idea is definitely to be more of a "game" than your go-to poetry text editor. I spent some time focusing on the design to make it seem more light. I agree, its not for writing.

And as far as trying goes, its free. I've done some Android dev before at my day job, and its just not my thing. I'm a big fan of writing iOS apps so that's what I went with.

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