Hi Product Hunt 👋

There are things we don't tell anyone: not our parents, not a partner, not our closest friends. They don't fit anywhere. They used to go in a diary in a drawer. Online, there's no drawer, so most of us just don't write them down, and then we forget them.

I built Solous to be that place. A few things that make it different:

You reply to your past self. Old entries come back ("you wrote this 3 years ago — anything to say?") and your replies thread under them. Over time an entry becomes a conversation between versions of you.
Emotions as speakers. Hand a line to whoever inside you is saying it: Joy, Fear, Doubt, or ones you invent ("the 15-year-old"). Social media with an audience of one. That's the name: Solo·us.
No streaks, no reminders, no daily emails. If you write four times a year, those four are still there.
Actually private. Optional end-to-end encryption, so the keys never leave your device and I can't read your journal. Full export to one plain file whenever you want it.

Want to see it before signing up? Here's an example journal, made up, but showing how entries, emotions and replies to your past self look.

It's free: 1 GB for photos and video and room for about 10,000 pages of writing. No trial, no credit card (what's included). It works as an app on your phone's home screen.

I'm a solo maker and read every comment, so I'd really like to know: what would make you trust a journal with the things you've never said out loud?

Hi Product Hunt 👋

I built Solous to be that place. A few things that make it different:

You reply to your past self. Old entries come back ("you wrote this 3 years ago — anything to say?") and your replies thread under them. Over time an entry becomes a conversation between versions of you.
Emotions as speakers. Hand a line to whoever inside you is saying it: Joy, Fear, Doubt, or ones you invent ("the 15-year-old"). Social media with an audience of one. That's the name: Solo·us.
No streaks, no reminders, no daily emails. If you write four times a year, those four are still there.
Actually private. Optional end-to-end encryption, so the keys never leave your device and I can't read your journal. Full export to one plain file whenever you want it.

Want to see it before signing up? Here's an example journal, made up, but showing how entries, emotions and replies to your past self look.

It's free: 1 GB for photos and video and room for about 10,000 pages of writing. No trial, no credit card (what's included). It works as an app on your phone's home screen.

I'm a solo maker and read every comment, so I'd really like to know: what would make you trust a journal with the things you've never said out loud?

Solous

Some things fit nowhere. They go here.

Some things fit nowhere. They go here.