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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775878 Points: 8 # Comments: 4
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
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775878
Points: 8
# Comments: 4
