Piruetas
A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
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I searched for a simple, self-hosted journal app for my girlfriend and everything I found was either too complex, too feature-heavy, too feature-less for what I needed or required trusting a cloud service.So I built Piruetas (it means pirouettes in Spanish - she chose the name btw).It's a day-per-page diary with rich text editing, drag-and-drop image uploads, auto-save, public share links, and a clean mobile UI. It can be set up for Personal or Multi-user usage via docker compose deployment.She seems to like it so I decided to give back to the community and make it available for everyone (after some QA)Live demo: https://piruet.app (login: demo / piruetas — data resets every 30 min!) GitHub: https://github.com/patillacode/piruetas
HN · launched May 2, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: digital journaling apps · 287 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Piruetas is a straightforward self-hosted web journal with standard CRUD functionality, authentication, image uploads, and Markdown export.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian with Journals + Templater + Share Note plugins, Memos, 20+ other journal and task management apps
Concerns raised: Diary app market is saturated with many existing options, Privacy/encryption of sensitive personal data on hosted instance, Server administrator could potentially access unencrypted entries, Data loss risk and backup compatibility issues with web-based tools, Sustainability of free service if hosting costs become unsustainable
Feature requests: At-rest encryption of journal entries, Encryption approach that preserves search and rich text functionality, Better data portability and export mechanisms, Cross-platform compatibility improvements
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Echologue · hn · 2026-07-29 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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- Odozi · hn · 2026-04-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Dear Universe · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- private-diary · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together · hn · 2026-08-28 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Piqt (iOS) · hn · 2026-08-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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