A browser‑native editor that saves your document in the URL

A new Show HN entry takes minimalism seriously: a text editor that persists everything in the address bar. What’s notable here is the complete absence of storage backends or accounts-the URL itself is the document. Share a note by sharing a link; open a link and you’ve reconstructed the state exactly as it was. Under the hood, the app serializes editor state into the URL (typically the hash or query), allowing a fully static deployment with zero server logic and privacy-by-default behavior until you actually share it.

The bigger picture is about design trade-offs. Stateless hosting and deterministic state make this ideal for snippets, checklists, and config sketches where “fork by link” is a feature, not a workaround. You also get built-in versioning via browser history, easy diffing by comparing URLs, and no data retention risks on someone else’s database. Worth noting: URLs have practical size limits and can be mangled by chat apps, email clients, or proxies, so long-form documents or embedded assets aren’t a fit. There’s no real-time collaboration either-every edit yields a new link. Still, as a pattern, it’s a clean reminder that many utility tools can be CDN-only, auditable, and frictionless using nothing more than the address bar.