A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Details
- External ID
- 49119751
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A Handwritten Blogging Platform
- Website domain
- handwritten.blog
- Launched
- July 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 192
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9629629629629629
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
The idea is a place for beautiful notes like https://insidevoices.handwritten.blog.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- blogging platform for handwritten content
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a niche blogging CMS built on standard web frameworks (Rails, Turbo/Stimulus) allowing users to upload scanned handwritten notes/images into blog posts.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Supernote Manta and Nomad e-ink tablets, Traditional blogging platforms
Concerns raised: Accessibility issues for blind/visually impaired readers without transcribed text, SVG unsuitable for variable-width pen strokes and stroke opacity, Handwriting difficult to read for some users, OCR accuracy for converting handwriting to searchable text, People may forget how to handwrite
Feature requests: Add underlying text transcription or OCR for accessibility, Support variable stroke width and opacity in handwriting rendering, SVG annotation to map drawn characters to actual text characters
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 50 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- Smart Writer · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FluxNotes · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Inklings · hn · 2026-02-04 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I added a print edition to my indie blog · hn · 2025-12-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- middle place · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- WriterScribe · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- blogwriter · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Design Gallery · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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