[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pbnj - A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you ...
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Show HN: Pbnj - A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in
60 seconds
I'm sure folks here have seen pastebins a thousand times. There's
no innovation left in this space - and that's kind of the point.
When I wanted to self-host a pastebin, every option I found was too
much. Git-based version control, OAuth, elaborate admin panels. I
just wanted something I could deploy in under a minute with a CLI
that actually works. So I built pbnj (yes, like the sandwich).
What it is: - A minimal, beautiful pastebin with syntax
highlighting for 100+ languages - One-click deploy to Cloudflare
(free tier gives you ~100,000 pastes) - CLI-first: pbnj file.py -
get a URL, copied to clipboard - Memorable URLs: crunchy-peanut-
butter-sandwich instead of x7f9a2 - Private pastes with optional
secret keys - Web UI for when you're not in a terminal What it
isn't: - No accounts, no OAuth, no git integration - No multi-
user support (fork it and run your own) - No expiring pastes, no
folders, no comments - Not trying to replace Gist or be a
"platform" Why not just use Gist? Maybe you want to own your data.
Maybe you enjoy self-hosting things. Or maybe you're a little
autistic like me and just like having your own stuff. Live demo:
https://pbnj.sh GitHub: https://github.com/bhavnicksm/pbnj CLI: npm
install -g @pbnjs/cli If this scratches an itch for you, I'd
appreciate a star on GitHub. Happy to answer any questions!
Author : bhavnicksm
Score : 45 points
Date : 2025-12-05 13:13 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pbnj.sh)
(TXT) w3m dump (pbnj.sh)
| indigodaddy wrote:
| This is really well done, but the problem I have with (most)
| selfhosted bins is that anyone can use it, and I don't want to be
| responsible for the content that might show up.
|
| This is super neat though, and could almost be used as a blog
| replacement (if of course I could prevent others from using
| it/posting to it :) )
| 0_____0 wrote:
| I'm planning to set up a VPN into my home network for stuff
| like this. Services, NAS, etc. that I want remote access to but
| don't want exposed to the deep dark ocean of the internet.
| thunderbong wrote:
| Usually, for these kind of programs, I put them behind a proxy
| with basic auth.
|
| Also, when I tried to add something on the demo site, it asked
| me for an auth key.
|
| Looking at the code, the package.json file has an entry for
| AUTH_KEY (in the Cloudflare config) to prevent random people
| from pasting stuff.
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Ah, well that's kinda perfect actually
| davidcollantes wrote:
| HOWTO without CloudFlare, is it possible?
| thunderbong wrote:
| pnpm run build
|
| should do it
| davidcollantes wrote:
| That creates `dist` with:
|
| 404.png .assetsignore _astro/ bread.png favicon.png
| favicon.svg jelly.png lock.png logo.png og-image.png pbnj.png
| peanut.png _routes.json styles/ _worker.js/
|
| In it. What comes next?
| catapart wrote:
| - navigate to dist directory
|
| - run pnpm dlx http-serve
|
| - navigate to one of the provided ip addresses
|
| (this uses the tunnl.gg service and is not necessary for
| local network access)
|
| - [optional, for access via internet] run ssh -t -R
| 80:[provided ip address including port] proxy.tunnl.gg
| davidcollantes wrote:
| That gave me some other errors. I am giving up. Thanks
| for helping!
| Numerlor wrote:
| Fwiw if you want a simple pastebin, I've been running
| pinnwand for a couple years without any issues off of a
| single short docker compose file, I think running it on
| host also shouldn't be complicated
| mervz wrote:
| Crazy that people really need instructions on how to self-host
| stuff these days... this stuff used to be something most devs
| could figure out.
| som wrote:
| I use CloudFlare a lot for "self hosting" .. but I also run an
| old pi from home with Bun in place of workers. Suprisingly
| compatible and low lift.
|
| Not exactly "without CloudFlare", but for true compat you can
| probably also self host workerd itself which is open source:
| github.com/cloudflare/workerd
| bhavnicksm wrote:
| Hey!
|
| Right now, some things are somewhat hard-coded to be Cloudflare
| compatible. If someone's willing, you can just deploy this
| without Cloudflare, but you'd need to dig into the code a
| little.
|
| In the future releases, I'll make it possible to host it on
| VPCs and release a Dockerfile along with it, so that should
| help a little.
|
| Thanks for checking the project out!
| Tt6000 wrote:
| Hey there, first of all congratulations, it's really nice and
| minimal and Illove it!
|
| But Cloudflare is not self hosting!
| bhavnicksm wrote:
| Yes, that's quite fair re:Cloudflare!
|
| I couldn't find the right words to describe this, in comparison
| to something like Github Gist. I suppose "Own-your-data" since
| the D1 db generated is yours completely.
|
| Happy to change the branding to be more reflective of this!
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