I built a free, no-login clipboard that shares text, files — and even AI video — via an ultra-short link

Shon Wu (Shon Wu) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:24:48 +0000

Like most developers, I move little scraps of content between machines all day: a code
snippet from my laptop to a remote box, a screenshot to my phone, an error log to a
teammate. Email is too heavy, chat apps re-compress images, and most pastebins make you
sign up before you can do anything useful.

So I built Cloud Clipboard (cv.cm) — an online clipboard that needs
no account. Paste text, an image, audio, video, or any file, and it gives you back an
ultra-short link you can copy with one click. Open the link anywhere and the content is
there.

What it does

Paste anything → get a short link. Text, images, audio, video, arbitrary files.
Built for code. Syntax highlighting for 200+ languages, plus HTML and Markdown rendering, so a shared snippet actually looks like code instead of a wall of plain text.
Cross-device by default. The link is the transport — laptop → phone → server, no app install, no login.
Public or private, with tags to keep things organized.
Auto-translation into 11 languages, which turned out to be handy for cross-border teammates reading the same paste.

The whole thing runs on Next.js on Cloudflare Pages + D1, which keeps it fast and cheap
enough to stay free for everyday use.

The part I didn't expect to build

While using the clipboard to shuttle around AI-generated assets, I kept bouncing out to
separate tools to actually make the videos and images. So I folded a small AI studio
into the same app at cv.cm/v:

Queue-free Seedance 2.0 text/image-to-video generation (real human faces supported).
Image generation via gpt-image-2 and Seedream.
A virtual avatar library and a face mode.

New accounts get 100 free credits to try it, and the free tier covers normal clipboard
use indefinitely — you only upgrade if you want long-term storage that never expires.

Try it

No signup needed to test the core idea — open cv.cm, paste something, and
copy the link. I'd genuinely love feedback from other devs on the snippet-sharing flow and
what file types you'd want supported next.

What do you currently use to throw a snippet or file from one device to another? Always
looking for the gaps I haven't covered yet.

DEV Community: Shon Wu (Shon Wu)

I built a free, no-login clipboard that shares text, files — and even AI video — via an ultra-short link

What it does

The part I didn't expect to build

Try it