a minimal, ephemeral pastebin service.
minbin is a minimal, ephemeral pastebin service built with simplicity and privacy in mind. it's self-hostable, open source, and ideal for quick, temporary sharing of snippets, logs, or notes.
pastes expire automatically after 1 hour, or immediately after being viewed (optional). you can view pastes through a clean HTML interface or directly as raw plaintext. a QR code is generated for each paste to make sharing even easier.
→ check it out at minb.in
- ⚡ minimal UI
- ⏱️ ephemeral pastes (1 hour or one-time view)
- 🌐 accessible via browser or HTTP POST
- 👀 view in browser or as raw text
- 📱 QR code generation for easy sharing
- 🏠 self-hostable
- go to minb.in
- paste your text/snippet
- publish to get a short URL and QR code
- share the link (e.g.
https://minb.in/aB01) - view it raw:
https://minb.in/raw/aB01 - paste expires after 1 hour or after viewing once
you can also use minbin from your command line:
# share a file
curl --data-binary @example.txt https://minb.in
# share a string
curl https://minb.in -d "hello from the terminal!"minbin can be self-hosted by deploying it as a Docker container (see GitHub package registry) or by one-click deploying it on Railway (referral link).
| Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
APP_DOMAIN |
public domain used in generated links | minb.in |
DB_HOST |
redis hostname or container name | dragonfly |
DB_PORT |
redis port | 6379 |
DB_USER |
redis username | (optional) |
DB_PASS |
redis password | (optional) |
PASTE_EXPIRY |
paste expiration time in minutes | 60 (1 hour) |
MAX_PASTE_SIZE |
maximum paste size in bytes | 5242880 (5 MB) |
you can override these by passing them into Docker or setting them in your hosting environment. the standard configuration uses DragonflyDB for the database, but any Redis-compatible database should do.
minbin – a minimal, ephemeral pastebin service
Copyright (C) 2025 Paul Haedrich
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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