Hyprnote Is Now Char

We're renaming Hyprnote to Char.

If you've been following us for a while, this might come as a surprise. But if you've been paying close attention, it's been a long time coming.

How Hyprnote Got Its Name

The name Hyprnote originates from our initial project "sales note" — an attempt to build a notetaker for salespeople, born from my own experience. Yujong came up with Hypernote, but when I searched for the domain, nothing close to it was available with a .com. So I went with Hyprnote to salvage the domain.

Honestly, I was never fully happy with the name. People constantly referred to us as "Hypernote." Every single chat, every meeting title — it was always "Acme vs Hypernote." It became a recurring frustration.

The First Attempt

We actually tried to rebrand back in August 2025. The name I chose was Arx, Latin for fortress. Yujong didn't like it. And thanks to Harshika's SEO efforts, we had constant inflows of traffic. So we grew into our name and shelved the idea.

Then Came the Letter

In December, we received a cease & desist letter from another company that had a similarly named product. After consulting our investors and legal counsel, we decided it was best to get a new name for our product.

Finding the Right Name

We had multiple candidates: Inklave, Artifact, Arx again. But we couldn't quite land on one. Either there was no acquirable domain, or it just didn't feel right.

Why Char

Then the word char struck my mind.

char is a keyword in the C programming language — reserved for defining a variable with a character type. In layman's terms, char is used to define a text.

Since Yujong and I are engineers at heart and our product is essentially a notepad, I thought it would be a brilliant name to tell our story.

Going deeper, char is a 1-byte data type. I liked the fundamental aspect of it — every user of Char is seeking insights from their interactions with others at the most fundamental level.