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PasteDaemon
Your clipboard, with a shell in it
Every clipboard manager stores what you copied. PasteDaemon runs on it. Set a trigger and unformatted json arrives pretty printed, no keystroke in between — or type a shell pipeline against your history: $1 | trim | upper. History, search and OCR stay free forever.
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Hi Product Hunt, I built PasteDaemon because every clipboard manager I tried only stores what you copied, and I wanted one that *does something* to it. **Automatic transforms on copy.** A trigger is a set of conditions plus a chain of actions, and it fires the moment something lands on the pasteboard. Copy a tracked marketing URL and what arrives in the next window is already clean. Copy minified JSON and it comes back pretty-printed. No keystroke in between, no window to visit. Only the JSON one is armed on a fresh install — the other two ship disabled, because rewriting a stranger's clipboard uninvited is a bad first five minutes. **The search bar is a small shell.** `$1` is your last copy, `$2` the one before it: $1 | trim | upper $2 | totz PST # Convert a time mailed to you in Eastern to Pacific $subtotal + $shipping # decimal, so 0.1 + 0.2 is 0.3 The result previews live as you type, before you run it. Anything you work out by hand can be promoted to a trigger, and a filter can be a shell script, which is the escape hatch for everything I didn't think of. ** Lists ** - Lists are paste stacks taken to the next level. Lists are a sequence of clippings that you can paste back one at a time. After you paste the first item, the second item is automatically loaded into the clipboard. If you have a web form you fill out often, you can put the values you frequently use and paste them in quickly. Lists can even be generated dynamically at runtime, allowing you to create different values. The rest is what everyone else has: automatic OCR, pinning frequently used items, history search, variables/snippets. Since it's a background app that watches your clipboard, the part I'd want to know: no account, no sync, no telemetry. Items marked concealed (stuff from 1password) are never recorded. Licences are verified offline, so activating one contacts nothing. The only network request the app can make is an update check, against a feed you configure. Free and unrestricted while it's in beta. From 1 November the automation needs a $19.99 licence and the clipboard manager — history, search, OCR — stays free forever. $4.99 until then if you want to lock it in, and that's a full licence with every future update. macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel. Happy to answer anything.
About PasteDaemon on Product Hunt
“Your clipboard, with a shell in it”
PasteDaemon was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #123 on the daily leaderboard. Every clipboard manager stores what you copied. PasteDaemon runs on it. Set a trigger and unformatted json arrives pretty printed, no keystroke in between — or type a shell pipeline against your history: $1 | trim | upper. History, search and OCR stay free forever.
On the analytics side, PasteDaemon competes within Mac, Productivity and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PasteDaemon performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PasteDaemon?
PasteDaemon was hunted by Armand Halbert. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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