About
A small studio, deliberately quiet.
Echoes is made by Stillwater Studio — an independent software studio of two people, based in Singapore. No investors, no engagement metrics, no advertising: quiet tools, paid for by the people who use them.
Why a journal, and why this one
The studio started in 2024 with a disagreement about notes apps. Every one of them wanted to be a workspace: kanban boards, backlinks, team spaces, a second brain with a filing system. What neither of us could find was the digital equivalent of a paper notebook — something that holds the day, asks for nothing, and keeps its mouth shut.
Echoes is our answer. It holds one day per entry, in markdown, with a mood mark and whatever tags you invent. It can share exactly one notebook with the few people who matter — a kitchen table, not a platform. And it is private at the layer that counts: the database, where a policy, not a promise, decides who reads a row.
We fund it with a subscription because we can't build an advertising business on other people's diaries. Six dollars a month, from people who write often, is the entire plan. There is no series A in the drawer and no roadmap pivot toward “AI-powered journaling insights” — the day you write is yours to interpret.
How we decide
Four commitments, in writing.
01
Privacy is a default, not a setting
Every notebook starts private and stays that way until you deliberately share it — and sharing is one notebook, not your account. The enforcement lives in Postgres row-level security, not in a terms-of-service paragraph. If the interface disappeared tomorrow, the database would still keep your entries to itself.
02
No dark patterns, anywhere
No streak guilt, no red-dot notifications engineered to pull you back, no infinite feeds. We count none of the things an advertising business would count. The product is finished when it gets out of your way, which is why the editor has a keyboard shortcut and the marketing site has actual sentences.
03
Sustainable, not explosive
Stillwater has no investors and no growth targets. Echoes is priced so that a few thousand quiet subscribers can keep it alive for decades — a tool you can actually plan to write in for the rest of your life, not a rocket that either lands or explodes.
04
Small is a feature
Two people build Echoes. Support tickets are answered by the person who wrote the code. Roadmap decisions weigh the writers who email us more heavily than any analytics dashboard — we keep the dashboard almost empty on principle.
The people
Everyone who will answer you
Mira Halim
Design & words
typesets the journal; defends the serif
Dev Anand
Engineering
writes the policies and the data layer
Try the notebook we built for you.
Nine seconds with Google, or an email and a password — then a blank page that stays yours.