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Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems

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Re: Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems

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Post by davezatch »

Just downloaded it. As someone who used to read more poetry and has fallen off, I like the idea! Maybe this will prod me back into the habit.

One bug report: I can’t select text in the poem. Wanted to look up a word and can’t figure out any way. Was that disabled intentionally?

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Post by freshbakedbread »

archiepeach wrote: post #4
mttjj wrote: post #3

Looks nice, congrats on the launch. Two things that aren’t clear to me from the App Store page (I haven’t downloaded the app): 1. Why is account creation necessary? Why can’t I just store/sync my bookmarked poems with iCloud? 2. What the subscription is or does. The most recent change notes say that a Pro plan with ‘additional features’ was added but doesn’t elaborate beyond that.

Thanks for the feedback! 1. Account creation isn’t actually necessary, if a user wants to back up their saved poems they can just use iCloud to sync them. 2. The subscription largely provides full access to all curated poems. It felt like the most appropriate thing to make part of the pro plan. I didn’t want to take anything away from users who had installed the app before the pro plan was introduced, so they have be…

Congrats on the launch! I’m interested in using this app as I’ve also been looking for something like this and your implementation is very sleek. Regarding the subscription, do you have plans for future pro-only features?

Re: Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems

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Post by lelandfe »

perilunar wrote: post #2

This is a beautiful looking app, but I can't help thinking it exemplifies everything that is wrong with modern web development. Firstly, why is this a native app and not a website? Oh actually, it is a website: https://thepoetrycorner.app , except some parts of it (search?, accounts?) don't seem to be working in the browser. Lets see what the pages are like. Here's one: https://thepoetrycorner.app/robert-lee-frost/th…

A 39 megabyte app will be wonderfully petite in comparison to its siblings on a phone.

Re: Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems

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Post by motohagiography »

What a great idea. What I like about poetry is it makes the idea of people in general more plausibly likable by reminding us that a strangers inner life is possible. If we were only as deep as our tweets and the other things we do for reflected approval there would be really nothing to save. It seems urgent to find a way to see people as more than the symbols we have come to represent.

Funny how media means we are all relating to one another as symbols, and then we're surprised when we treat each other like them.

App downloaded. In the Collections list, a category for "Wise" would be a big draw, as poetry is a dense vehicle for education. (thinking Blake's proverbs of hell, Auden's one liners, Holzer's truisms, etc.)

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Post by rikroots »

perilunar wrote: post #2

This is a beautiful looking app, but I can't help thinking it exemplifies everything that is wrong with modern web development. Firstly, why is this a native app and not a website? Oh actually, it is a website: https://thepoetrycorner.app , except some parts of it (search?, accounts?) don't seem to be working in the browser. Lets see what the pages are like. Here's one: https://thepoetrycorner.app/robert-lee-frost/th…

If size is a worry for you, then you might enjoy Poets' Corner[1] which has been going since 1994. The design of the site might not be 2020s chic, but at the end of the day it's the words in the poems that count (though many poets would argue that the white space between the words is just as important).

[1] - https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/

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