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

26•patillacode•2h 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•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago

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

latexr•1h ago

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

sdeframond•53m ago

They don't have "etron" thought, which might explain some poor naming by Audi ?

roscas•1h ago

Hyundai Kona (renamed in Portugal to Kauai)

mejutoco•12m ago

I would like to add Nissan Moco (snot/mucus in Spanish) to that list.

patillacode•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago

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

edu•43m ago

Well, we would refer to chupa-chups (brand) to the ones with a ball head. And Kojaks if they had gum inside.

Piruletas were the flat ones, either circular or heart shaped.

lemiffe•1h ago

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

patillacode•1h ago

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

mr_sturd•53m ago

Can confirm that that username and password are not working in the login page.

patillacode•28m ago

I have tested many times, I have asked other people too... I cannot replicate what you are experiencing, sorry.

rscrawfo•19m ago

Same issue for me.

raonyguimaraes•8m ago

Edit: It was firefox, it doesn't work on firefox!

nutthugger•17m ago

same

deafpolygon•16m ago

Same. It just doesn’t work.

Also a bit confused about self-hosted vs “free”.

deaux•1h ago

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

patillacode•1h 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•57m ago

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

roscas•45m ago

Nice, simple, light and dark theme, a calendar. I would remove the internet checks for your storage.ko-fi.com and it did some calls on pypi.org and files.pythonhosted.org. All it needs should be on the docker by default. But that is just me.

patillacode•29m ago

Thanks for the feedback! Appreciated!

user3939382•19m ago

I find our standards and norms around network access to be unacceptable. Programs shouldn’t access the Internet without opt in by the user either as a setting or a UI interaction.

We had many years of applications from the dial up error and prior that didn’t assume constant connectivity and we all survived.

Even an OS enforced blend of oauth style initial permission and LittleSnitch where the user is asked what they consent to at first launch would be fine.

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