# NEED SUGGESTIONS

I am working on a secure end to end encrypted note taking web application. I am the sole developer and working on weekends and will make it open source.

The contents you save will be end to end encrypted, and server won't save the key, so even I can't read or NSA or CIA.

So I wanted to know if the idea is good? There are lot of traditional note sharing apps like Google Keep and Evernote. But they store your stuff in plaintext. So as a user will u switch to this secure solution?

fuck nsa

my 2 cents: I do a lot of note taking on the go, like while travelling, just before going to sleep, in the market etc etc.

The point: at least 70% of my note taking happens on a mobile device + offline. rarely I go and access a dashboard as I don't carry my laptop around.

would love to use the app if it can provide an android client.

@gswebspace there will be android app eventually. But for start I would focus on making the web portal stable and working. The web app will be responsive, so can be used from mobile, iPad, tablets easily.

@trubesv thanks for the info.

YES YES YES I'D LOVE THIS 😍

Of course !!!

@linuxxx thanks... I have made the website, need to buy a domain and then start working on the main code...

@abhi-inc What crypto algo's/security measures will you put in place?

@linuxxx will be using AES for encryption... The key will be a user provided passphrase. And the server won't store the passphrase. User will enter passphrase and it will be locally saved in their browser...

@abhi-inc So what if a user switches browsers? Might be worth to take a look at how Tutanota.com handles this :)

@abhi-inc Id like to use something like this maybe.

But frankly, users generally don't care about security nearly as much as they make it sound they care. In fact most people avoid using security features at the first minor inconvenience.

I wouldn't expect getting users is easy with something like this.

Why are you even making this open source to begin with? If you don't plan on hosting this yourself you expect people to do it on their own? If you do intend to host it yourself, how are you gonna fund it if there is no business behind it?

All in all, I wouldn't do it. At least not while thinking there will be plenty of users.

Check https://github.com/turtl I think they do what you want

@linuxxx user will have to remember the passphrase and will enter it every time they want to access their stuff...

@vertti I would be hosting on my ec2 instance and would also give source code on github if u want to host on your own website.

I am not thinking to make money out of it. Just an open source project. At least it might add weight in my portfolio....

@leosuncin I know there are existing applications. But they lack features and I want to overcome them to reach masses. Make the system very user friendly.