--- title: "Poemeet: Collaborative Poetry as a Social App" description: "Poemeet combines matching, collaborative poem-writing, and playful pacing into one coherent social product, designed, built, and launched solo by Daco Hsieh." url: https://dasto.app/portfolio/en/product/poemeet/ language: en alternate_zh: https://dasto.app/portfolio/product/poemeet/ author: "Daco Hsieh 謝明達" published: 2026-07-06 updated: 2026-10-28 --- # Poemeet: Collaborative Poetry as a Social App > Poemeet combines matching, collaborative poem-writing, and playful pacing into one coherent social product, designed, built, and launched solo by Daco Hsieh. - **Specimen**: Poemeet - **Category**: Product Design / Social App / Poetry Game - **Launch**: April 2026 - **Modes**: Word Blocks / Chaos Poem - **Languages**: Traditional Chinese / English / Japanese - **Role**: Solo Product Creator / UX / UI / Frontend / Backend / Launch > “A place where souls recognize each other.” [▶ Poemeet promo short](https://www.youtube.com/embed/UrOQab806h0) *Video 1 — This promo short shows how Poemeet uses rhythm, emotion, and co-creation to build a very different kind of interaction from swipe-based matching.* Poemeet is one of my clearest examples of turning an abstract idea into a structured product. I was not trying to build another swipe-based matching app. I was trying to build a space where strangers move closer by creating something together. It combines matching, poetry, playful pacing, and social-safety systems into one product. Instead of starting from photos, users begin with scent-based profiling, system matching, and then co-create through either Word Blocks or Chaos Poem. One of Poemeet’s clearest differentiators is that it does not begin with interests, hobbies, or swipeable self-description. It begins with a Scent Test: a set of subtle, emotionally textured prompts designed to map someone through sensory preference, relational boundaries, and modes of companionship. ![Poemeet scent profile intro screen](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-intro-CiW7X_ak.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile rainy-day question](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-question-rain-DTm4HhGK.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile sensory question](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-question-senses-z9xCweAA.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile fear and longing question](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-question-fear-C9Gsqg4k.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile companionship question](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-question-companionship-DgpDlARM.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile animal question](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-question-animal-m-QCaM_G.webp) ![Poemeet scent profile result screen](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-scent-test-result-DAMspqBw.webp) *Figure 1 — This Scent Test sequence shows the core idea clearly. Instead of asking for generic interests, Poemeet uses 12 atmospheric prompts to organize a person into a matchable emotional and sensory profile.* The prompts are intentionally delicate. Instead of asking "what do you like?", Poemeet asks questions like "What kinds of sensory experiences make you feel especially alive?" The answers might include a dim room on a rainy day, the mixed smell of roasted chestnuts and smoke at a night market, or the warmth of old wooden furniture. Other prompts ask what someone fears and longs for in a relationship, or what ideal companionship looks like: doing separate things while knowing the other person is nearby, or sharing quiet without needing many words. ![Poemeet room list screen](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-rooms-BJ2eY0po.webp) *Figure 2 — The room-list screen makes Poemeet’s entry point legible: users begin by entering a poetry-room system rather than evaluating profile photos.* What I designed here was not just feature placement, but the structure of how a relationship begins. Registration, language preference, matching logic, room flow, and unlock timing all work as one narrative system. The first core mode is Word Blocks. Two people take turns composing lines from suggested word fragments. The point is not freeform text, but a gentle constraint system that helps strangers create rhythm together from the beginning. ![Poemeet Word Blocks room in Chinese](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-word-blocks-zh-B2U98lFR.webp) ![Poemeet Word Blocks room in English](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-word-blocks-en-3JvgmKqI.webp) *Figure 3 — These Word Blocks room screens make the interaction model tangible: the active poem appears above, suggested word blocks sit below, and co-creation happens through rhythm and structured constraints rather than open chat.* The second core mode is Chaos Poem. Players alternate between drawing and guessing across eight rounds, and the results are then placed into a poem framework. It is a good example of how I treat surprise, distortion, and emotional residue as product materials rather than design flaws. ![Poemeet Chaos Poem drawing round one](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-chaos-poem-draw-1-B-uqjg2-.webp) ![Poemeet Chaos Poem drawing round two](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-chaos-poem-draw-2-C31dxWao.webp) ![Poemeet Chaos Poem guessing round one](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-chaos-poem-guess-1-Dj1yGLuo.webp) ![Poemeet Chaos Poem guessing round two](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-chaos-poem-guess-2-Cj1SnRXj.webp) ![Poemeet Chaos Poem final result screen](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-chaos-poem-result-CzMEljtd.webp) *Figure 4 — These Chaos Poem screens make the mechanic legible: drawing rounds, guessing rounds, and the final poem result all appear in sequence, showing how Poemeet turns misreading and visual prompts into a structured co-creation loop.* Although these modes look very different, they solve the same problem: how to move strangers from awkwardness into meaningful exchange. Word Blocks uses rhythm and constraints. Chaos Poem uses play and productive misalignment. I also built the surrounding product system: the AI poet Mist, Poemeet Pro, cross-language creation, message-board unlocks, notifications, moderation, blacklists, room limits, plaza publishing, and the timing of when image exchange should become available. ![Poemeet plaza](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-plaza-CZNMgZp2.webp) ![Poemeet settings](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-settings-BlE_KOpU.webp) ![Poemeet profile](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/poemeet-screen-profile-6YNq9fJd.webp) *Figure 5 — The plaza, settings, and profile screens make the surrounding product system more visible. They show that Poemeet was also organized for publishing, notification control, language switching, Pro logic, and long-term profile state.* Many of the important decisions in Poemeet live in invisible layers: room limits shared across modes, cross-language Chaos Poem gates, public-plaza logic, block-state transitions, and carefully timed unlocks. I also built the project independently end to end: concept, product rules, information architecture, interface design, frontend, backend structure, multilingual content, subscriptions, notifications, launch, and public-facing pages. > Poemeet is not a dating app with poetry added on top. > > It is a redesign of how connection begins, using rhythm, play, and co-creation as the medium. > Poemeet’s public page gathers its product narrative, gameplay explanation, and supporting context as an external extension of this case. https://dasto.app/poemeet/ ## Part of - [How I Turn Ideas into Products: DriftGo](https://dasto.app/portfolio/en/product/) --- Author: Daco Hsieh 謝明達 · Contact: enodaco@gmail.com · Portfolio home: https://dasto.app/portfolio/en/ · 中文版: https://dasto.app/portfolio/product/poemeet/