The journal I wanted to exist.
Doug · minute.tech · September 2026
I lost a friend when we were young. For years afterward I’d go back and read the small, ordinary things he’d left online, and somehow they mattered. It was the closest thing I had to him still being in the room.
It made me think about what I’d want to leave for the people I love, and how little we have for it. Not a will, not a hard drive to sift through, but the actual thing. A letter for my daughter on the morning of her wedding. A note for my partner on a hard Tuesday years from now. The quiet days, kept the way they happened.
And it made me notice where all that ordinary writing goes now: into feeds, for strangers, in real time, for nothing. The urge to write the day down is good. The audience is wrong. I wanted a place with the shape of a post and none of the crowd, where every entry is mine by default, and a few, on purpose, are for someone else.
Posthum is the journal I wanted to exist.
— Doug
Founder
Who builds it
Posthum is built by minute.tech, a small product studio. We build software for clients by day; Posthum is the thing we build for ourselves. Funded by the studio, not by your data.
What it is
A fully private journal. Every entry is encrypted on your device with a key only you hold. Seal some for a later date. Share single entries with a few friends, or with the world, one at a time.
What it will never do
- Read, train on, sell or share your entries.
- Run ads, streaks, or any mechanic that makes you feel bad for not writing.
- Flip your journal open by default. Sharing is one entry at a time, on purpose.
- Release anything on a timer. Legacy delivery waits for people you chose and honours your veto.
- Take your words down with us. Read the longevity statement and try the standalone decryptor.
Questions, doubts, corrections: hello@minute.tech.