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Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes
i stan apple notes, so i built a new personal website to look, feel, & work just like it. it's fast, fully interactive, & can be navigated entirely via keyboard shortcuts. it was a lot of fun to build. i wrote more about the implementation in the linked page.
check it out!
- ankrgyl 2y agoCool to see the balance between UX and security. I really like the UI!
- alanaan 2y agothanks! i wanted anyone to be able to create notes and be able to share them with others, so tried to come up with the most secure way to accomplish that :)
- ckluis 2y agoI love fun projects like this.
- alanaan 2y ago<3
- romanshamin 2y ago[dead]
- ashryan 2y agoThis is really cool. I didn't expect to be able to make my own note. I wondered what your top page would be, and it seems to redirect to /about-me. Did you try any other ideas for a top page? I guess that's an interesting problem since the Notes app doesn't have a top page.
- alanaan 2y agoyeah it just redirects to the first note. i thought about having a welcome page but it took away from the apple notes feel. open to suggestions tho!
- gnicholas 2y agonit: the word "accessibility" is misspelled in your acknowledgments. Looks like a cool project!
- alanaan 2y ago:face_palm: thank you!
- kody 2y agoVery cool. I appreciate the breakdown of how you built this.
- alanaan 2y agothanks! just added to it about some of the perf and security changes i made after launching :)
- ecjhdnc2025 2y agoNow you just need a typeface with the distinctive alternate lower-case A :-)
- pimlottc 2y agoI tried to click on the gear icon, thinking it was settings menu. It's not very clear that it's an icon associated with the post.
- Zanfa 2y agoLooks nice, but scrolling is buggy on iOS Safari. There seems to be a nested scrollable area which doesn’t scroll properly when flinging up or down.
- alanaan 2y agothank you! fixed this :)
- financetechbro 2y agoThis is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
- eps 2y agoOn an older iPad it shows up as a blank page. Just FYI.
- moioci 2y agoI see a flash of white text on a dark background, then "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." in black on the same very dark background. Chrome on Win 10
- alanaan 2y agothis is probably happening if you're viewing a note that has been deleted. since i had 10000+ notes created on the day it launched i set up a pg_cron batch to delete empty notes that are >30 min old. if not, can you share the url you're seeing it on? thanks for letting me know!
- alanaan 2y agoi added better error handling for this :) https://www.alanagoyal.com/error https://www.alanagoyal.com/error
- goarchive 2y agoLove the unique idea!
- creativesage 2y ago[dead]
- seasiden 2y agocool