
Building a shared clipboard for dev teams — looking for feedback
I built a tool for sharing things instantly across devices — it's now something my dev team uses daily It started small. I was running something on localhost and wanted to quickly check it on my phone. Typed the IP, added the port, hoped for the best. Did that enough times that I thought — why not just build a proper UI for this? So I did. And then I kept adding things. What started as a personal convenience tool has quietly become something my team reaches for during almost every sprint. This post is about how that happened, what it actually looks like in practice, and where I want to take it — because honestly I want feedback from other devs on what's missing or what could be better. What it is Instbyte is a self-hosted local network sharing tool. One command on any machine: npx instbyte A URL appears. Anyone on the same network opens it in their browser. That's it — no install on their end, no account, no cloud. Everything syncs in real time. You can share files, text snippets, link
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