Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

11•patillacode•1h ago

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

Comments

edu•49m ago

Pirueta is not lollipop in Spanish, it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

Piruetas is pirouette, as in what a ice skater might do.

rustyhancock•38m ago

That's a lucky escape.

For some reason car manufacturers have this issue

Mitsubishi Pajero (renamed in Spain).

Ford Pinto (renamed in Brazil).

Toyota MR2 (renamed in France although slightly different issue).

Honda Fitta (renamed in Scandi countries)

yomismoaqui•24m ago

That's where LLMs with web search enabled help to check for dangerous project names in other languages.

latexr•8m ago

You don’t need LLMs for this (or most things suggested in HN comments). http://wordsafety.com/ has existed for years.

roscas•8m ago

Hyundai Kona (renamed in Portugal to Kauai)

patillacode•21m ago

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.

embedding-shape•12m ago

> it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

In Spain Spanish I never heard them called anything else than "chupachup" (regardless of brand), guess it's a bit of a "Kleenex/facial tissue" syndrome going on there.

patillacode•7m ago

What about the classic heart-shaped bright red "piruleta" from the "fiesta" brand?

lemiffe•39m ago

The demo doesn't work (invalid account when using the creds mentioned on the homepage)

patillacode•22m ago

I just tried it demo/piruetas and it works, can you double check?

outime•25m ago

No offense but creating a brand-new project and giving it a foreign-language name without double-checking, only for the name to be wrong, makes people wonder what else was overlooked.

patillacode•23m ago

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.

deaux•17m ago

Wholesale accepting all of the stock Opus colors is certainly a choice.

patillacode•13m ago

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.

stavros•2m ago

I don't know, I thought the design looked really nice.

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