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24 alternatives to Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds

I'm sure folks here have seen pastebins a thousand times. There's no innovation left in this space – and that's kind of the point. When I wanted to self-host a pastebin, every option I found was too much. Git-based version control, OAuth, elaborate admin panels. I just wanted something I could deploy in under a minute with a CLI that actually works. So I built pbnj (yes, like the sandwich). What it is: - A minimal, beautiful pastebin with syntax highlighting for 100+ languages - One-click deploy to Cloudflare (free tier gives you ~100,000 pastes) - CLI-first: pbnj file.py → get a URL, copied…

Pbnj is a minimal, self-hosted pastebin designed for quick deployment and ease of use. It offers syntax highlighting for over 100 languages, a CLI-first interface for sharing files directly, and memorable random URLs.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    I would like to introduce Tabby, which is a self-hosted alternative to GitHub Copilot that you can integrate into your hardware. While GitHub Copilot has made coding more efficient and less time-consuming by assisting developers with suggestions and completing code, it raises concerns around privacy and security. Tabby is in its early stages, and we are excited to receive feedback from the community. Its Github repository is located here: https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby. We have also deployed the latest docker image to Huggingface for a live demo:…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TextBin▲122

    Open Source alternative to PasteBin

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS. - MightyMoud/sidekick

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist. - thomiceli/opengist

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…

    2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple and efficient pastebin for code

    2022 · pastes.io · its alternatives →

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    I built GetPost because I miss the simplicity of just SCPing files to a personal server, but I do not miss the maintenance burden. It's a pastebin/imagebin that runs on Cloudflare Workers with zero ongoing costs and zero maintenance. Key features: - Deploy in 5 minutes, runs free forever (100k reads, 1k uploads daily on CF free tier) - No complex toolchain - no NPM, no wrangler - just curl, python3, and a simple build script - Handles text, markdown (server-rendered), images, any file type up to 10MB - ULID-based access control with separate delete keys An interesting technical bit:…

    2025 · staging.getpost.workers.dev · its alternatives →

  9. 9GA

    What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…

    Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple and Efficient pastebin for mainly code save.

    2023 · pastes.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple and efficient pastebin for mainly code

    2023 · pastes.io · its alternatives →

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    A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist

    2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →

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    glot.io▲261

    An open source pastebin with runnable snippets and API

    2016 · glot.io · its alternatives →

  14. 14HN

    I have ported "The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL" series, https://www.howtographql.com/, from Javascript to Clojure/script. Blog post: https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full... Source code GitHub repo: https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame Suggestions and corrections, more than welcome.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Hey developers I think we're tired of copying and pasting our codes and sharing links using PasteBin, GithubGist, or Slack. What if you could share the codes without copying the link and share them right from your favorite editor? That was the motivation for creating TurboGist. Right now, it's still in the MVP stage, and I'm trying to gather feedback from developers like you. It's available as a beta in the VS Code Extension store. Can you guys check this out? It'd help me a lot. You don't need to pay any penny, 100% FREE. However, I'm working on introducing a self-hosted feature. Besides, a…

    2025 · turbogist.dev · its alternatives →

  16. 16BP

    Pastebin is a well known term for such services (where you paste whatever you want to share). The functionality is also simple and that’s why I decided to build a pastebin service using only NGINX.

    2020 · usamaejaz.com · its alternatives →

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    Openbin▲138

    Code and notes sharing built for command line warriors

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    This is a simple Pastebin clone I made using the Deno Typescript runtime. I created a simple templating system, and implemented server-side rendering for the UI. Demo: https://paste.jlcarveth.dev/

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Store pieces of text or code and share it with everyone.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A fast & secure pastebin for text & code sharing

    2025 · pastes.io · its alternatives →

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    A private, browser-only ClojureScript playground powered by the self-hosted compiler.

    2016 · cljsfiddle.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22IT

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

    2019 · pastebin.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23CC

    Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…

    2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →

  24. 24SA

    2012 · lucaspiller.github.com · its alternatives →

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