Jottit
Publish in seconds, reviving my 2007 project with Aaron Swartz
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Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as a really simple way for anyone to make a page on the web in seconds. You just typed something, clicked a button, and you got a page on a secret URL. It went offline years ago.I've now rebuilt it from scratch. It's basically the same idea, but even simpler. Go to jottit.org, write markdown, and you have a published page. Claim it, pick an address, and you now have a feed of your pages at yourname.jottit.org. There's no signup to start writing. And no JS on public pages. You can export your writing when you want.Jottit is free and open source. It's not a startup, just something I really wanted to exist again.
HN · launched Mar 11, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: web publishing and content curation tools · 44 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a minimalist web publishing tool with basic CRUD functionality, markdown rendering, and secret slug URLs.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 96 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Flowershow · ph · 2026-03-25 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write · hn · 2026-06-08 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- mdto.page · hn · 2026-01-16 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Daytwo · ph · 2026-11-10 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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