Ctxt.io – share context of whatever you see with others in seconds
Share web pages, code snippets, and rich text with an auto-expiring link. No signup needed — paste, pick a lifetime from 5 minutes to 30 days, and send the link.
Ctxt.io – share context of whatever you see with others in seconds launched on March 23, 2017 with 174 votes, #188 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
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Ctxt.io lets users share web pages, code snippets, and rich text through auto-expiring links that last from 5 minutes to 30 days. No account creation is required—users paste content, select an expiration time, and generate a shareable link. A browser extension enables quick sharing of full page loads. It is designed for developers, technical teams, and anyone needing to quickly show others specific online content or code without permanently storing it.
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Quickly share contextual snippets of what you're reading online with friends or your audience. Just select paragraphs of text and images on any website and paste them into the text field above. Let others quickly understand what kind of user experience or personalized ranking you see. Use our browser extension to quickly share the page load you just saw, without worrying about whether things change on a second load and without having to give away your password. Typing up a solution to a pesky bug and want others to quickly review what you wrote? Just copy code snippets right out of your favorite editor or the Terminal directly and preserve syntax highlighting and fonts. Have interview…from ctxt.io
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