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No logins. No servers. No trace. puwk is a scratchpad built around a radical idea: the safest place to keep a thought is nowhere. Write what you need to write, close the tab, and it disappears — no account, no sync, nothing stored, nothing to breach. Share a note? The full content is encoded directly into the URL. No server ever sees it. No database ever holds it. It self-destructs on schedule. Privacy here isn't a setting. It's the architecture. one File. Zero backend. Free forever.
puwk — the notepad that forgets
Most notes apps want to own your thoughts. Sync them, store them, remind you they have them.
puwk does the opposite. Open a tab, write whatever you need to write, close it. Gone. No account. No cloud. No history. Just a clean page that gets out of the way.
Why ephemeral?
Some thoughts don't need to live forever — a quick calculation, a draft you're embarrassed about, a vent you needed to get out. puwk is for those. It's a scratchpad with a self-destruct built in.
But it's not nothing:
Rich text — bold, italic, six highlight colors, keyboard shortcuts
Five fonts — Helvetica, Georgia, Garamond, Palatino, Mono
Dark mode, PWA-installable, works offline
Share notes via URL — the entire note is compressed and encoded directly in the link. No server ever sees it. Copy the URL, send it, set an expiry. That's it.
The share feature is the magic trick: a link that contains a full note, encrypted by URL encoding, that expires on its own and leaves nothing behind.
puwk is for writers who draft in public browser tabs, developers who need a scratch buffer, and anyone who thinks the best note app is one you don't have to think about.
Open source. No login. No tracking. Free.
I like the safest place to keep a thought is nowhere idea.
How you think about the balance between ephemerality and usefulness — do users mostly use it for private scratch notes, or for temporary sharing?
About Puwk on Product Hunt
“Your cute Ephemeral Notepad in Browser”
Puwk was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #79 on the daily leaderboard. No logins. No servers. No trace. puwk is a scratchpad built around a radical idea: the safest place to keep a thought is nowhere. Write what you need to write, close the tab, and it disappears — no account, no sync, nothing stored, nothing to breach. Share a note? The full content is encoded directly into the URL. No server ever sees it. No database ever holds it. It self-destructs on schedule. Privacy here isn't a setting. It's the architecture. one File. Zero backend. Free forever.
Puwk was featured in Productivity (652.1k followers), Writing (59.2k followers) and Notes (8.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 148.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Puwk?
Puwk was hunted by Niko S. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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