This is a small app I've built to satisfy three pains/wishes I've had for a while and I think there might be people out there who can benefit from it as well.
1. I want to pop up a new tab, start writing my thoughts and, maybe, share them over the internet. As fast as I can and with as little friction possible. tldraw totally does this for drawing stuff in a whiteboard but for text, Obsidian is a local tool that requires installing and Notion is too involved. I want a simple link that just works the moment you navigate to the page.
2. Sometimes I wanted to share code or other text artifacts with customers over Discord, but the platform caps messages to a certain length before it forces you to submit a .txt. Pastebin kinda fills this gap but it's an old site and it doesn't handle BIG pastes very well also it doesn't double as your own document vault (plus I don't care about all their "public pastes" thing).
3. This is a recent one. Now, due to AI tools, everyone is sharing Markdown and HTML files around, even people that have no idea what Markdown and HTML is. We end up with a bunch of static files thrown around, no versioning, no security, etc. I'm not the best file organizer: I want shareable links and a compact history of all the artifacts people share with me and all of them on their latest version. Also, it instantly renders it!
From this, Pastehex was born. It might seem a weird Notion/Pastebin/tldraw amalgam but to me it fills a gap no tool ever had. It kinda feels like Notes empowered just enough for an age of constantly generating and sharing info.
I hope you like it as much as I do! It was built to be very fast and safe, it stores everything local unless you manually publish. I also have a long list of pains that I'll keep fixing with new features, stay tuned for:
- Vim mode. - Accounts. - Table view for CSVs, Parquets, SQLite, DuckDB files. - Organizations.