Yet-Another-Pasting-Service

A small, self-hostable pasting service. My version of a successor to hastebin before toptal killed it and made it worse entirely.

Built to be minimal UI and easy to use. No frills. One binary, one SQLite file. No requirement on external dependencies or services.

YAPS is under active development, there will be gaps and breaking changes. See status for more info.

Why?

Most pasting services are abandoned, bloated, or just a lot of UI fluff which gets in the way. I always loved hastebin because of its simplicity and ease of use. I also wanted some more features on top of hastebin, so I built YAPS.

Quickstart

1. Download the latest release
2. Copy the config.toml
3. Run: ./yaps

By default, YAPS listens on :3000 and stores its database at data/yaps.db. See config for more configuration options.

Contributing

Pre-Requisites

Go 1.26.5 is required

go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest
go install github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc/cmd/sqlc@latest
go install github.com/a-h/templ/cmd/templ@latest

Commands

All commands have shortcuts in Makefile. Here are some common ones:

• make generate, generate templ and sqlc
• make migrate/up, run migrations
• make migrate/create my_migration, create a new migration

Important

templ generate and sqlc generate must run before go build. make generate will run both templ generate and sqlc generate.

Running

GoLand project files are provided in the repository. If you use GoLand you can use it's runner to automatically generate and run YAPS.

Status

This project is pre-1.0 and under active development. Core anonymous paste create/view flow works today.

End goal is:

• burn after read, self destructing pastes
• authentication
• password locked pastes
• private, unlisted, and public pastes