Hey All!
Been tinkering on a side project called Quickpoint. It’s a super lightweight, keyboard-first writing and sharing tool. Think of it like a notepad that instantly turns what you type into a shareable page- for notes, code demos, quick thoughts, or even presentations.
The goal is to stay in flow. no tabs, no formatting fluff, just type and share. I’m still very early (beta-ish stage), so I’d love feedback!
It’s Quickpoint.me
You don’t need to sign up. just hit the link and try it. Would really appreciate your thoughts, and happy to check out anything you’re building too.
Thanks! 🙏
Hey thanks for sharing your project! H hopefully this feedback is helpful.
I wasn’t able to get far on mobile. It was annoying to have to be in landscape mode, and then I couldn’t advance the tutorial in the demo.
If it is supposed to be keyboard-based, maybe just don’t allow phone users?
Hey- I really appreciate you checking it out and sharing this.
That’s super helpful feedback. The mobile experience definitely isn’t where it should be yet, and you’re right: landscape-only and keyboard-heavy interactions just don’t translate well on phones.
I’ll look into either improving mobile usability or making it clearer that it’s a desktop-first tool for now.
Out of curiosity—do you usually build or write things on mobile? Or were you just casually checking it out?
These days I’m typically mobile first, I use JuiceSSH and RevolutionIRC as apps that do mobile versions of desktop tasks quite well.
I am just not sitting down at a desktop or laptop very often these days unless I have to. But I always have my phone, so I’ll use it if I can.
But I’m also not a “power user” so maybe not the target for your site!
I’m compelled but I don’t know if it’d stick longterm just cause I know myself.
Hey! That’s fair enough! I appreciate the honesty. Out of curiosity, why wouldn’t it stick? Maybe your feedback could shape how it works. Just trying to learn so In can improve it. much appreciated- really!
Mostly laziness. I’m not sure that there’s anything I currently do where this would be a tool for me, so I think if I was using it it’d be out of enthusiasm for the tool causing me to look for reasons to use it and that’d eventually peter out.
I respect the self-awareness. A lot of tools can be cool in theory, but if they don’t slot naturally into your existing habits or workflows, it’s hard to justify their point.
Curious though: are there any tools you didn’t think you’d stick with, but ended up integrating into your routine anyway? Sometimes those unexpected use cases are the most revealing.
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“Pictures of Shrek porn Enter Enter test search Why is this not working? Shit, am I still sharing? Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z Fuck, that doesn’t work!? I WAS HACKED. [Disconnected]”
This is hilarious hahahah However, I’m not sure how to make constructive changes based on this - care to elaborate ?
No, it was just a silly throwaway joke! I’m probably not the right target user, but if I end up trying it, I’ll give you feedback…
Cheers! If you end up giving it a go- I’d love to hear what you think. I don’t know who the target user is right now btw!
Beautiful
I found a bug
All your stories will be viewable at http://quickpoint/
the tld is missing + http
Btw how to use without signup? Closing demo popup closes the interface.
Is this self hostable?
First of all- thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated- honestly. I can use this stuff to advance and shape it move forward.
I’ll look at that bug straight away!
It’s not self-hostable (yet). Would that be important (why?)… I suppose it depends what you’re using it for.
It’s not self-hostable (yet). Would that be important (why?)…
If I use it as a note taking + sharing with few friends. If I publish the notes on the open internet or use it as a pastebin with nice formatting then no.
Though in the former case client side encryption also works otherwise.
Also I generally prefer open and self hostable software cause vendor lockin, central service going down, enshittification etc. If the software is open users can contribute and fix bugs too which makes the service more featureful and robust.
I’ve been thinking about a self-hosted option, but your framing helps prioritize why that matters beyond just checking a box. Also noted on the client-side encryption. It makes total sense in those scenarios.
Would love to hear more about how you’d ideally deploy or manage a self-hosted version: Docker container? CLI? Something else?
Nowadays I deploy most self hosted services as containers. If something is not available as such, I install it inside container and make a Dockerfile of it. Snap is useful too here (cf nextcloud). For some rust/go projects I just run the binary on the host directly as a systemd service. The corresponding update service pulls the release, builds it locally and restarts the service appropriately.
Which means it totally depends on the project structure, scale and security administration which in turn depend on user. Somebody else might want something totally different but I would suggest go for container.