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
12 points by vseplet - 10 comments
Huge thanks for all your feedback!
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.
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.
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.