Show HN: A free private (secure) journaling app with sharing functionality

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really nice idea, except heroku recommendation

it's another cloud platform that you have to trust, so it'd not be true that "you really own your data"

Yeah that's a good point. I thought the data encryption made it "safe enough". I also wanted to strike a balance between nice security features and ease of use.

I am definitely no expert at security. What hosting would you recommend?

penzu.com claims to encrypt diaries as well. the real problem that you will have to "trust" them. Diaries usually contains user's most private and sensitive data.

IMO, the best model is to encrypt the data locally on your device, WITHOUT relying on a remote javascript software in a webpage to encrypt data, then sync already encrypted data to some server.

Some tools that may fit for ecnryption: PGP/GnuPG , SQLcipher.

Some tools that may fit for syncing your data: syncthing, megasync, any other cloud provider sync API.

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