#246
B+
Rank #68
Standard Notes
An end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with a self-hostable sync server, positioned as a privacy-first Evernote/Notion alternative. Its standout trait is a security-first design where the server only ever stores encrypted blobs, never plaintext.
74.5
/ 100
⚙ Full Stack
TypeScript/Node sync server backed by PostgreSQL, with client-side end-to-end encryption (all crypto happens in the client apps before data ever reaches the server) and Redis used for caching/queues.
📈 Scaling Analysis
Scales well: the sync server is largely stateless per-request with Postgres as the source of truth, and since the server never decrypts data, adding replicas introduces no new key-management complexity — a genuinely clean horizontal-scaling story.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Deploy as a syncing-server pod + postgres pod (+ optional redis pod), reached via <podName>.pod:5432/6379; because encryption is entirely client-side, the server pod itself never needs to handle plaintext secrets, simplifying the security posture on Nexlayer.