Piruetas
A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
Details
- External ID
- 47985210
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Piruetas
- Website domain
- piruet.app
- Launched
- May 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 71
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8683360258481422
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted diary application
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 65 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 66 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
- Echologue · hn · 2026-07-29 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- deariary · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain · hn · 2026-09-13 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Dear Universe · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Odozi · hn · 2026-04-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- private-diary · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Selfsame · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Bondy: Couple Journal & Diary · ph · 2026-09-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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