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Aditya Sorathiya
Aditya Sorathiya

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I searched “pastebin cli” on Google... and i got my project??? 🔎

One of those small milestones that feels surprisingly big. 🚀

I searched Google for:

pastebin cli

And PasteDB CLI appeared on the first page of results.

Google is showing:

“PasteDB CLI – Pastebin Command Line Tool for Developers”

The result appears below Google's AI Overview.

PasteDB is an open-source developer-focused paste platform I've been building, and the CLI lets developers work with pastes directly from their terminal.

It supports things like:

  • Create pastes
  • Read pastes
  • Update pastes
  • Delete pastes
  • Explore pastes
  • Work with the PasteDB API directly from the terminal

What makes this milestone exciting to me isn't just seeing my project's name in Google.

It's that someone searching for a generic term like “pastebin cli” can potentially discover a project I built.

It's a small SEO/discoverability milestone, but for an indie/student developer, these little moments are really motivating. 😄

PasteDB:
https://pastedb.netlify.app

GitHub:
https://github.com/sorathiya903/pastedb

Have you ever had a project unexpectedly start appearing for generic searches? I'd love to hear about it.

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