Jottit
Publish in seconds, reviving my 2007 project with Aaron Swartz
Details
- External ID
- 47334459
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Jottit
- Website domain
- jottit.org
- Launched
- March 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.491389913899139
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- startup launch and fundraising tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- quick website publishing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a minimalist web publishing tool with basic CRUD functionality, markdown rendering, and secret slug URLs.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #15 of 29 (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
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- Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write · hn · 2026-06-08 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website · hn · 2026-04-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Ant · hn · 2026-05-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Pbnj · hn · 2025-12-05 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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