
Started building simple app and accidentally uncovered something bigger
Like a lot of devs, I started this project just trying to scratch my own itch. I couldn’t find a clipboard manager that looked good, worked reliably, and most importantly synced across devices. Nothing quite fit, especially bouncing between Windows and macOS daily.
So I started building one.
But the deeper I got, the more I realized something: the clipboard is kind of this invisible layer of our daily workflows. It’s where everything passes through code, logs, notes, links, screenshots, snippets, thoughts and yet it’s treated like a dumb buffer.
What if it wasn’t?
Now I’m exploring how to build an AI layer on top of clipboard history. The idea is simple:
• Instead of feeding AI tools data every time you need help…
• The system quietly collects and organizes your interactions in the background.
• So when you need something a summary, a reformat, a search, a decision the AI already has the context.
Still early, but I feel like this could change how we interact with our machines. Less prompting, more getting.
Would love to hear what you think 🙂
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