Hush Docs is an offline-first, private Google Docs alternative. You can turn off your internet and the site works totally fine. Your docs are stored in your browser (using IndexedDB/Dexie.js), so you can create and edit your docs whenever you want, no internet or account needed. If you decide you want to sync across devices - or collaborate with others on a doc - you can create an account (which you do need internet for). Your docs are then end-to-end encrypted, so no server ever has access to your plaintext docs! Docs stay in sync using CRDTs (Automerge) - collaboration should be smooth even if someone works on a doc while offline for a while (like on an airplane with no wifi). Code is 100% open source. [1]
I decided to create this because someone asked for a tutorial on how to create offline-first apps using Userbase, which is a developer tool I’ve helped work on to make it easy to create secure and private apps [2][3][4]. I started out with a super basic tutorial, and then one thing led to the next and ya know: Hush Docs. A basic tutorial on how to build something like Hush Docs with Userbase is coming! [5]
Hush Docs is super barebones, so I’m calling it a "demo." If there's serious interest, I’d happily put more time into it and get it into something more production ready.
For reference, here are a couple other sweet E2E encrypted Google Docs alternatives I came across while scoping this out:
Airborn did something especially cool worth pointing out: they used a service worker to guarantee that code loaded into the browser came from the latest GitHub commit. [6]
[1] https://github.com/j-berman/hush-docs
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22145168
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869472
[5] https://userbase.com/docs/
[6] https://blog.airborn.io/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Apps...