Crap Notes 🗑️📝
So… I've been making a lot of crap with AI tools lately: half-baked study guides, weird little briefs, random Markdown rants, the occasional PDF I'll probably never read again. The kind of stuff you generate in a Claude conversation, think "huh, neat," and then immediately lose in your downloads folder.
I wanted to share this stuff with friends. The problem: we're all on our phones. Sending a .md file in a group chat is a vibe killer. Nobody's opening that. Pasting raw Markdown into a message is worse.
So I built a tiny thing for it.
What it is
Crap Notes is a stupidly small self-hosted web app. You drop in a Markdown, HTML, or PDF file, and it spits out a clean, mobile-friendly link you can text to a friend. They tap it, they read it. That's the whole pitch.
- Renders Markdown nicely (with math, because of course Claude loves equations)
- Shows HTML notes in a sandboxed viewer
- Inline PDFs that don't make your phone cry
- Private by default — uploads are hidden until you hit "Publish"
- One-tap copy-link and download
- No database, no signup for viewers, no ads, no nonsense
It's literally just for me and my friends to share craps with each other. But if you want one too, it's open source.
Try it / steal it
Clone it, run npm install && npm run dev, you're done. Deploys to Vercel in like two clicks if you want it on the internet.
⭐ Star it if you like it. That's how I know to keep making more crap.
Best,
LZDXN