Show HN: Jottit – Publish in seconds, reviving my 2007 project with Aaron Swartz
simonbc Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as a really simple way for anyone to make a page on the web in seconds. You just typed something, clicked a button, and you got a page on a secret URL. It went offline years ago.
I've now rebuilt it from scratch. It's basically the same idea, but even simpler. Go to jottit.org, write markdown, and you have a published page. Claim it, pick an address, and you now have a feed of your pages at yourname.jottit.org. There's no signup to start writing. And no JS on public pages. You can export your writing when you want.
Jottit is free and open source. It's not a startup, just something I really wanted to exist again.
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Jottit is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking and collaboration platform that allows users to easily create, share, and manage their notes and documents securely within their own infrastructure.
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