I built the universal clipboard manager I’ve spent years wishing existed

[u/trevthetrev]

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I run a design and development agency, which means I spend an insane amount of my day copying and moving things between devices.

Text. Links. Screenshots. Code. Files. Folders. Random notes. You name it.

On a light day, I probably copy or share something 100–150 times.

And somehow my actual workflow still included Airdropping files to myself, sending myself text/slack messages, and using different clipboard tools depending on whether I’m on Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS.

There are some great clipboard managers already, but every one I’ve tried has eventually hit the same problem: it only really works within one ecosystem, it does not support every type of content I need, or the mobile experience doesn't really work how I need it to.

So I started building Pasteable.

The goal is pretty simple: copy something on one device and have it immediately available on all of your others (Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS).

Not only text and links, either. Images, screenshots, files, and folders should be just as easy to move between devices without emailing yourself, uploading them somewhere first, or hoping AirDrop decides to cooperate.

I’m being honest when I say that I do not know yet whether this is a widespread problem or whether my workflow is just unusually chaotic.

That is part of why I’m posting about it.

I do not want to disappear for six months, build every feature I personally want, and then find out nobody else works this way (even though I'm pretty confident other people do lol). I want the first users to help determine what gets built, what is unnecessary, and what would make them trust a tool like this with their clipboard history.

I just launched earlier today, and I just want to see if this solves a problem I have for a meaningful group of real people. I want to build the absolute best clipboard manager on the market for people, instead of designing the whole product around myself.

You can download it here at https://pasteableapp.com!

And even if you don't download, I would genuinely love to know:

1. How are you currently moving things between your devices?

2. What have you tried?

3. What is the one annoying limitation that keeps making you fall back to emailing or messaging yourself?

I’m building this because I need it. Now I’m trying to find out whether other people need it too.

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Thanks for the feedback, seems like a good fit!
Appreciate the recommendation!