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Hmmm, interesting, I will have a look, thanks!
There are two cases:
Self-hosted: your data lives entirely on your own machine/server and obviously I never see it.
That's the primary privacy model the app is designed around.
piruet.app (my hosted instance): you're basically trusting me. (I know, trusting a random stranger on the internet... right?)
Other things I can tell you:
Passwords are bcrypt-hashed and I can't recover them, but journal entries are stored in a SQLite database on the server.
There's no at-rest encryption of content, so in principle the server's administrator could access the entries.
I don't do it on principle and there's no infrastructure set up to do so, but I can't make a technical guarantee of that.
If you just don't trust the person hosting it, I'd honestly recommend self-hosting yourself.
At-rest encryption of entries is something I'd like to add, it's just not there yet.
In the meantime, piruet.app is best treated as a demo/trial environment rather than a permanent home for sensitive writing.
If you have thoughts on how to approach encryption in a way that doesn't break usability (search, rich text, etc.) I'd genuinely love to hear them.
LOL
"one entry per day" takes on a whole different meaning that way.
Entries are stored in a SQLite database, and uploaded images sit on disk under the configured DATA_DIR.
Both are in a single Docker volume.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate that you are looking out for me really.
My intention, the meaning of "forever free", is that I will provide the service for anyone and everyone that cannot self-host themselves, but of course, if I don't have money myself to rent a server, for example, and I have to shut the app down I would inform the people using it.
This is more or less expected from a free app in my experience and there is a paragraph in the terms related to this, under "NO GUARANTEES"
What I want to say though is that I won't charge users for as long as the app lives, if the app dies for whatever reason I will try to inform users to export their data and find a better place I guess.
I use firefox and I have e2e tests that work in firefox, feel free to create an issue in the github repo explaining a bit what is not working for you
I don't, I just wanted to give back to the FOSS community.
If someone finds it useful and want to collaborate with the project they can tip me on ko-fi.
You can self host the app yourself or use the free hosted one I provide
Thanks for the feedback, I figured it out, I guess I forgot about the trolls...
Rolling out now...
I have tested many times, I have asked other people too...
I cannot replicate what you are experiencing, sorry.
Thanks for the feedback! Appreciated!
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I had some time to look into this, I think it is partially valid.
The pypi.org and pythonhosted.org calls happen only at docker build time when dependencies are installed, the running container makes no calls there.
The ko-fi badge image (storage.ko-fi.com) is a real runtime outbound request though, every page load fetches it from their CDN.
That's fair criticism and it has an easy fix which is to self-host the image, which I'll do like I do with the rest of things, like fonts.
Thanks again!
What about the classic heart-shaped bright red "piruleta" from the "fiesta" brand?
To be honest, my non-negotiable was that it needed to have some orange, but that doesn't work very good with a calm, minimalist app, so it remained as the accent color.
The rest wasn't my choice, we just did a few tests and my gf chose the palette you see today.
Having said that, you got a point and I didn't even realize it until you mentioned it.
The funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.
I just tried it demo/piruetas and it works, can you double check?
The funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.
Posted by
patillacode on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:42AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://piruet.app
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...
Posted by
patillacode on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:46AM
from the github.com dept.
I tend to always have a python project or two on the go, usually for my own benefit, little scripts to make my day to day easier/faster/automated or just learning new things or experimenting with ideas.
Because of that I found myself repeating the same steps over and over again when setting up new Python projects. Same song & dance.
I wanted a way to automate the setup for new projects, so I created ppieces.