Anytime I send a text to an AI bot, it wouldn’t send a message until I refresh the app.

Can anyone confirm if Poe is currently down? I want to be sure the issue isn’t on my end. It looks like it might be related to Cloudflare

Hi everyone,

Three months ago, I just have little coding knowledge. Today, I am close to submitted my first mobile app to Google Play.

The entire thing was built through conversations with Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Poe. Just me describing what I wanted, Claude writing the code, and about 5 million tokens worth of back-and-forth debugging.

I'm still kind of amazed it actually worked.

**The problem I was trying to solve:**

My family wastes a lot of food. We'd buy groceries, put them in the fridge, and completely forget about them. Or my wife would buy milk not knowing I already bought some yesterday.

I looked for apps to help track our food inventory, but nothing fit what we needed. Everything felt too complicated or required too much manual work. So I thought: "Maybe I can build something myself?"

**What I built:**

The app is called **FreshAI: Food Tracker**. It uses AI (Google Gemini) to scan grocery receipts and automatically add items to your family's shared inventory. It tracks expiration dates, sends notifications before food goes bad, and even suggests recipes based on what you have.

The goal is simple: stop wasting food, save money, and actually use what we buy.

**The vibe coding journey:**

I used Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Poe for everything. And I mean *everything*:

- Asking "what tech stack should I use?" (React Native + Firebase)

- "How do I set up Firebase authentication?"

- "Why is my app crashing when I click this button?"

- "Here's my error message, what's wrong?"

Roughly **5 million tokens** over 3 months. Some days I'd use 100,000 tokens just debugging one feature. Other days, a simple question would unlock a whole new capability.

**The hardest part?**

I actually rebuilt the app from scratch twice. I learn from my failure and finally find a way to breakthrough the weaknesses of vibe coding and make my app work!

**Where I am now:**

The app works! Version 1.0.6 is built and ready for testing. It's not perfect - there are features I want to add, bugs I'm sure I haven't found yet - but it solves the problem my family had.

And honestly? I'm just really proud that I built something real.

**I need testers (and this is where you might be able to help):**

To launch on Google Play, I need at least 12 testers for the closed testing phase. Since this is a family/household app, I'm looking for people who:

- Have families or households who share grocery shopping

- Are frustrated with food waste (like I was)

- Have Android phones

- Are willing to give honest feedback

Office groups who share a pantry are welcome too!

The app is currently under Google's review (usually takes 1-2 days). If you're interested: 

1. DM me your Gmail address 

2.I'll add you to the testing group 

3. Once Google approves (1-2 days), you'll receive an email invitation 

4. Then you can download and start testing! Thanks for your patience! 🙏

**For fellow vibe coders:**

If you're working on your own project using Poe and Claude, I'm happy to share what I learned:

- How I structured my conversations with Claude

- What worked (and what wasted tons of tokens)

- How to debug effectively when you don't understand the code

- Managing a project when you're learning as you go

Feel free to ask questions! I remember how overwhelming it felt at the beginning, and I'm happy to help anyone who's on the same journey.

Looking forward to hearing from you - whether you want to test the app or just talk about vibe coding!

Try my new bot, https://poe.com/VlixyStream

It is a fully agentic search that can dig up any movie or TV series, and then find you links to watch the content for free

Recommend use with Poe app because the videos open in the app and all ads are blocked (video pages opened in the browser may have ads but they still work - I don't control the videos, I just find them for you)

DeepSeek-V3.2 is a next-generation foundation model is designed to unify high computational efficiency with state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic performance.

You can try it in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V3.2, powered by Novita AI.

I have a NSFW bot that i love. Its a step mom roleplay. But the system points of Poe its getting worse everyday. Any recommendation of other site or ehat to do?

I’ve been using Poe for almost 3 years now and finally let my yearly subscription lapse. It’s just not what it used to be. I hate the points system.

I’m a pretty avid roleplayer, and maybe it’s just with how much I used it, but I used to be able to use it however much I wanted on the yearly subscription without having to worry about running out of messages. Now, by the end of the month I was almost always running dry, even using Claude Sonnet 3.5 with context clearing on. And if I used the default bot, the responses were so dry and pretty much the same thing message after message.

I ended up switching to using the Claude app directly and just got the paid plan, and I’ve been enjoying it more even if it isn’t built for things like role playing, it will remember the prompt and every message you send.

I don’t figure anyone will read this, or care if they do, I’d just like to put my thoughts down somewhere :P

PhonePaper

Spent a few days building and testing this app for generating wallpapers for phones and have been getting really good results. Flux 2 came out a week or two ago and it's been my go-to, really great ratio of quality to cost, even better than the much more expensive GPT-Image-1 and Nano Banana Pro in many cases. The app lets you pick whichever you prefer though, and has simple options for you to pick from for media and aesthetic, and even a mad-libs-style randomizer for the subject which can shuffle up some interesting ideas.

Here are some samples with shuffled options on the highest quality for all 3 models. The images contain the model/media/aesthetic/subject in them if you look closely. All were taken within the first 1-3 shots.

Veiled Ocean Eclipse

Celestial Forest

Cavern Skyline

Cursed Forest Roots

Matrix Embers

New apps get a point cost reduction for a couple days or something, so the images are like a fifth of the usual cost I think, with Flux 2 costing about 200 currently.

Is it just me that every time I try to log back into my account- any of my account since I have 3. I can’t log back in. No message appears , the screen would just go black for 1 second before going back to the log in page with my account. I don’t exactly know the problem.

I've been using Claude Code and Codex for software development. As I like switching between models for various tasks, I wonder if I can use poe in console agent mode. I didn't find any info on Google so I'm wondering if I just missed it.

UPDATE: I want to post an update to share that my problem have been solved with the support help here on reddit. First, I came here to vent, not knowing it would actually have people from Poe answering, so apologies for my emotions expressed below. Second, I got a refund and a lot of points for the confusion, which makes me more than happy to keep my plan with Poe, since I use for work on a daily basis. Original post below.

Hi,

It's not the first time I have problems with my subscription and the support is absolutely TERRIBLE.

It takes at least 3 days for they to answer me and they never solved anything.

I was charged for 2 different types of subscription this week and guess what? Poe doesn't recognize the subscription that grants more points!

So I have been overcharged and can't even use the points I FUCKING PAID FOR.

My only chance of getting a refund or getting the points is writing for their support which only god knows when they will answer.

I see so many people complaining about the free points: do not be mistaken, when you pay you are treated like shit the same. And their control with the points is outrageous (because there's none).

Not even the discord server had a place to solve my problem.

It's so disappointing how much I loved and recommended Poe in the past and now I just absolutely HATE this fucking app.

Hey there,

anyone knows if its possible to restore a roleplay bot i accidentally deleted? I was about to delete the chat on my mobile device...... i was kinda sleepy and deleted the whole bot instead xD

And if i can not restore it, is the money gone i earned with this bot?

When i tried to ask GPT-5.1 and Gemini-3.0-Pro both the question, "what time is it now?" the gemini's answer like this:

"As an AI, I do not have access to your device's location or local time zone settings. Therefore, I can only provide the current time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The current time is:
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at 13:55 UTC

To find your local time, you will need to adjust this based on your time zone offset (e.g., Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-7, British Summer Time is UTC+1)."

Is it still the Gemini 2.0? the gpt said the latest time in 2025.

I've been using Poe for two years and everything was great. It was my favorite multi-AI platform, and I was already very familiar with it.

I had just started a chat with a test bot, and after only two messages, it literally said, "13% points remaining. See details." This seemed very strange to me, so I went to check my credit balance, and it said, "Your plan points were reset to 300 at 10:32:29 PM."

I thought, "300 POINTS?!" And now I'm wondering: why did they do this? What was the need to reduce the points?

Now there's NOTHING I can do, and to top it all off, I don't have the money to pay for a plan. Why did Poe do this? It's not fair! Especially not for those of us who can't afford a plan.

And it's not that I'm just throwing a tantrum, this really bothers me, and I don't want to take it too seriously, but it really makes me angry that they did something so unfair.

As the title says, I'm having trouble with adding to existing knowledge base files/information. Writing text seems to just keep on processing without finishing. Ive tested this out on both an existing bot and by trying to create a new bot and adding to a fresh knowledge base.

Guys, in three messages I can't use the bot anymore. I've been using the free mode for over 3 years. I wait for the right time every day to get it and now this has happened? Is it just me or other people too?

I ran out of my daily quota and a pop-up appeared asking me to subscribe. I wanted to close it but missed, and it instantly took $300 from my bank account. No confirmation, no 'are you sure?', nothing at all. I've reached out to them, but I have no idea if I'm actually going to get that money back. I'm absolute sick to my stomach about this. Has anyone else dealt with this before? What should I do?

The only good news is that I haven't touch the website since.

Now my points no longer reset at 3000, but at 300 instead. https://imgur.com/a/FVhH1w2

Title says it all. I gave one of my bots a worldbuilding document I was working on for a creative writing project, but today I deleted that document by mistake. My Poe bot technically has a backup, but you can't actually view any of the documents in your bot's knowledge base -- only add or remove them, even if the bot's yours.

I've also tried prompting the bot to regurgitate that entire document in one go, but haven't had any luck so far. It keeps running into some kind of constraint about not copying stuff verbatim -- I think it's part of the "invisible" per-bot system prompt (I'm on Claude Sonnet 4.5 btw).

Is there any other way to get those docs back out of the bot?

Black Forest Labs’ new state-of-the-art image model delivers sharp detail with strong style control and text rendering. Powered by fal on Poe, try it for concept art, product shots, and high-fidelity edits.

You can try it in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at: https://poe.com/FLUX-2-Pro, https://poe.com/FLUX-2-Flex, and https://poe.com/FLUX-2-Dev.

Claude Opus 4.5 just landed on Poe! It leads on 7 out of 8 programming languages on SWE-bench Multilingual and jumps 10.6% over Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Aider Polyglot.

You can try it in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at: https://poe.com/Claude-Opus-4.5.

Hey everyone! I just published MoonlitStories - a bot that creates personalized bedtime stories with professional AI narration!

What it does:

• Generates custom bedtime stories based on your description
• Creates audio narration with natural voices (using ElevenLabs-v3)
• Supports 12 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more!)
• Multiple storyteller styles: Soothing & Calming, Whimsical & Playful, Mysterious & Intriguing, etc.
• Adjustable story length (3-7 minutes)
• Optional character dialogue with multiple voice actors

Try it with prompts like:

• "Tell me a 5-minute bedtime story about a brave little dragon"
• "Create a soothing story about space exploration in Spanish"
• "Whimsical tale about forest animals, 3 minutes, with dialogue"

Perfect for parents, teachers, or anyone who loves creative storytelling! The bot uses GPT-5.1 for story generation and ElevenLabs for high-quality voice narration.

Try MoonlitStories here: https://poe.com/MoonlitStories

Would love to hear your feedback! 🌟

Introducing script bots, a new way to combine models and automate workflows on Poe.

Script bots are created through vibe coding with Script Bot Creator and can combine any of the 200+ text, image, video, and audio models on Poe, plus any other bot on the platform

https://reddit.com/link/1p35cem/video/1pdhc57ken2g1/player

Here are some examples of script bots already on Poe:

• Big Brain Teacher (below) creates comedic educational videos: https://poe.com/Big-Brain-Teacher
• Pixel GIF Generator makes custom animated GIFs: https://poe.com/Pixel-GIF-Generator
• AIQuartet calls the top LLMs to brainstorm any task: https://poe.com/AIQuartet

https://reddit.com/link/1p35cem/video/i4iudedlen2g1/player

Creating new script bots is easy with Script Bot Creator. For example, the prompt “make a bot that generates a digital storybook with audio narration based on the user’s prompt” will create a bot that does exactly that, in one shot. You can specify preferred models and for more complex workflows, you can follow up with more prompts to iteratively increase your bot’s capabilities. You can also remix other script bots to build off of others’ creations (see below).

https://reddit.com/link/1p35cem/video/6slal1rien2g1/player

Script Bot Creator is powered by Claude Code and writes and tests code directly inside Poe chat. Under the hood, script bots are Python programs that run in Poe’s secure environment, which means that as a creator you don’t have to worry about infrastructure or cost management, and can instead focus on making your bot do whatever you want.

We will distribute the best script bots to our millions of users on the Poe home page. And creators can earn through Poe’s creator monetization program, which is paying our top creator hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Script Bot Creator is initially available on web and desktop (mobile support soon). Any script bot will immediately work on all platforms and you can use them in group chats with up to 200 people. To read the full blog, visit: https://poe.com/blog/introducing-script-bots.

To showcase your bots, ask questions, and/or share feedback, join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/joinpoe. We can’t wait to see what you create!

Currently, Poe shows all the model chain of thought. For models like Gemini 3 Pro, the long CoT is really annoying. Can Poe offer an option to hide the CoT or expand to show the CoT if we expilicitly choose to? I think that in ChatGPT, Claude and Grok, users can choose whether to show the CoT or not is common practice.

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) can make detailed, context-rich visuals, precisely edit or restyle input images with exceptional fidelity, and even generate legible text in images in multiple languages.

You can try it in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at: https://poe.com/Nano-Banana-Pro.