Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
Details
- External ID
- 46378554
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 24, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 468
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9885496183206107
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step.What it does:Single HTML file, no deps, 111 locNotes live in the URL hash (shareable links!)Auto-compressed with CompressionStreamPlain-text editor (contenteditable)History supportPage title from first # headingRespects light/dark modeNo storage, cookies, or trackingThe entire app is the page source.https://textarea.my/
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- text editor that stores data in url
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A 111-line single-page plain JavaScript app using native CompressionStreams and URL hash manipulation is an ideal candidate for prompt-based coding in minutes.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: itty.bitty.site, routespinner.com, urlfile.app
Concerns raised: URL hash components get sent to server and logged, Unreliable when apps strip query/hash components, Mobile Safari cuts off content on copy/share, Long URLs corrupt when shared to Notes app, Browser compatibility issues (Vivaldi location tracking, Firefox URL updates)
Feature requests: Plugin to make data live in URL, Better mobile support/documentation for URL length limits, Fix z-index issues on mobile Firefox
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 134 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 135 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 22 days after the earliest competitor.
- re:note · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Paragraph Notes · ph · 2026-09-26 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in · hn · 2026-08-14 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ClippingMini for Chrome · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Classified · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- LiteEditor · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- MinkNote · ph · 2026-07-24 · 157 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Scrinium · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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