Ink & Verse
Classical Chinese poetry, with English beside every line
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Details
- External ID
- 1274728
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Verse
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- iOS, Languages, Books
Description
Ink & Verse brings the Three Hundred Tang Poems and the Three Hundred Song Lyrics to iPhone: 600+ classical Chinese poems in the original, each with an English title, a clear translation and commentary on its imagery and history. Meet poets like Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Shi, listen to guqin music while you read, read in vertical script on ink-wash paper, and get your name carved into a Chinese seal that signs every poem you save.
Enrichment
- Niche
- multilingual translation and learning tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- classical chinese poetry reader with english translations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward iOS reading application displaying static bilingual poetic text and playing audio files, which can be easily implemented with standard SwiftUI or React Native components.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #54 of 122 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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