I built GhostBin, a lightweight pastebin designed to replace the simplicity and speed that services like ix.io used to offer. ix.io has been down for a long time, and most existing pastebins are either bloated, slow, or not CLI-friendly. I needed something minimal that “just works,” especially for piping logs and command outputs during debugging or writing content. So I made my own.
GhostBin focuses on:
Simplicity: Clean interface and a straightforward API.
Performance: Go + Redis for fast reads/writes.
CLI-first workflow: curl and shell pipelines work out of the box.
Privacy & control: Self-hostable with Docker; no vendor lock-in.
Burn-after-read + expiration: Useful for ephemeral snippets.
Optional deletion secret: Allows secure deletion via API.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RINJI_Q5048
Source: https://github.com/0x30c4/GhostBin
CLI script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0x30c4/GhostBin/main/gbin.sh
``` $ curl -F "f=@file.txt" gbin.me ```
``` dmesg | curl -F "f=@-" gbin.me ```