✅ End-to-End Encryption for maximum privacy ✅ Customizable Expiration: Set self-destruct times ✅ Syntax Highlighting for multiple languages ✅ Private/Public Sharing options ✅ User Accounts for managing pastes ✅ Social Features: Like/comment on public pastes
I was exploring golang and thought of building a simple crud api in go. But while doing that I got the idea of extending it to build a privacy focused clone of paste bin. This was more of a learning thing as I also wanted to learn how to deploy and handle production with real users.
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About TextBin on Product Hunt
“Open Source alternative to PasteBin”
TextBin launched on Product Hunt on August 3rd, 2024 and earned 124 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. ✅ End-to-End Encryption for maximum privacy ✅ Customizable Expiration: Set self-destruct times ✅ Syntax Highlighting for multiple languages ✅ Private/Public Sharing options ✅ User Accounts for managing pastes ✅ Social Features: Like/comment on public pastes
On the analytics side, TextBin competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub and Development — topics that collectively have 626.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how TextBin performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted TextBin?
TextBin was hunted by Sahil. 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.
For a complete overview of TextBin including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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