[HN Gopher] Show HN: Nowrite.fun - If you stop typing, your text...
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Show HN: Nowrite.fun - If you stop typing, your text disappears
Hey HN, I built a small experimental writing tool called
nowrite.fun. The concept is brutally simple: You set a timer (e.g.
5 minutes), start writing -- and if you stop typing, your text
vanishes. No drafts, no recovery, no forgiveness. Inspired by apps
like Write or Die, but rebuilt from scratch with a lightweight
stack: Deno + TypeScript, XState, anime.js, and canvas-confetti.
Hosted on Deno Deploy. It's a tool for short, focused writing
sprints -- a tweet, a blog paragraph, a newsletter blurb. Keep
typing - you win. Hesitate - it's gone. It's minimal, a bit
stressful, and surprisingly motivating. I also posted it on
Product Hunt to see if this kind of weird, borderline masochistic
UX resonates with anyone: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/no-
write If you find it fun or useful, I'd really appreciate an
upvote! Would love your thoughts, feature ideas, or performance
roasts. Try it here: https://nowrite.fun
Author : vseplet
Score : 14 points
Date : 2025-04-23 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| codazoda wrote:
| I've seen similar tools before. This seems like it fades out a
| bit too quickly.
| vseplet wrote:
| I think I can increase time
| smartmic wrote:
| Like this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41819800
| layman51 wrote:
| I haven't tried it yet but it is an interesting idea for an app.
| My initial thoughts are: if I have something that seems to be
| important or significant that I wrote down near the start of my
| note, I would probably type gibberish or nonsense if I wanted to
| prevent it from being erased. Is there some way to ameliorate
| this situation where I would end up padding the note with fluff?
| My guess is to just make the timer shorter. Or maybe have some
| "checkpoint" for a longer timer.
|
| Also, when it comes to handwriting, is there a way to support
| this input? I'll say that a lot of left-handed writers have the
| opposite issue when writing with ink on paper. If they write too
| fast, most of them will end up smudging what they just wrote.
| This is not an issue on electronic writing devices of course.
| freedomben wrote:
| Same, and I could also see myself compulsively using Ctrl+A
| Ctrl+C to get it on my clipboard just in case. I already do
| this in webforms (like on HN) because of so many years of
| losing my text.
|
| I like this idea but I think it would be great if the text went
| into a recycle bin instead of fully gone. At least for me that
| would still accomplish the desired result, but I wouldn't live
| in fear of losing some important point because I took too long
| proofreading or something.
| vseplet wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback, I'll think about how to implement
| this beautifully in the near future!
| vseplet wrote:
| Maybe I didn't understand you, but on the sides of the timer
| there are buttons + and -, you can choose a time convenient for
| you
| skeptrune wrote:
| Beyond writer's block, this helped me lock in. I often take long
| thinking pauses and get lost in mental rabbit holes, which wastes
| time and reduces my productivity.
|
| I would appreciate a version with slightly lower risk. As it
| stands, I don't think I could use this current version for
| anything beyond your intended use case of short, paragraph-long
| blurbs.
| vseplet wrote:
| Thank you very much for the feedback! I think that all people
| are different and the time of going into darkness should be
| adjustable
| vseplet wrote:
| I've increased the time before failure -- now writing will be a
| bit easier, and losing a bit harder.
|
| Huge thanks for all your feedback!
| purplecats wrote:
| kind of off putting to have to wait and go through all the
| dialogue screens when you just want to start typing
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