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3+title = "Pastebin on Urbit"
4+date = "2023-06-05"
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6+[taxonomies]
7+grant_type = ["Proposal"]
8+grant_category = ["App Dev"]
9+
10+[extra]
11+image = ""
12+description = ""
13+reward = "1 Star"
14+assignee = ["~polwex"]
15+champion = ["~poldec-tonteg"]
16+grant_id = "P0271"
17+completed = false
18+canceled = false
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22+# Description #
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24+One of the promises of Urbit, perhaps the biggest one, is making the Internet peer-to-peer again. That's what it's designed to do. If I want to share data with other people I should be able to share it directly. I should not need to use other people's computers (the "cloud") to share a file, or a text snippet.
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26+While Dropbox-like functionality will take some time to arrive to Urbit, one thing we can do right now is more simple data sharing. Pastebin is a very useful website, but again it boggles the mind that you need to use an external service to share a simple piece of text with your friends. It should be easier. We will make it so.
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28+This proposal will create an Urbit application to share arbitrary text. You will be able to produce a link that will display a piece of text that you saved. You will be able to expose that document to the clearweb, only inside Urbit, or to selected Urbit ships of your choice.
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30+# Compensation #
31+Reward: 1 star
32+#
33+Note: This proposal was modified from the [Pastebin on Urbit RFP](https://urbit.org/grants/pastebin-RFP).