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

Saturday, May 2, 2026patillacodeView original

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


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