PrivateBin
Pastebins
Minimalist pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Zlib
Dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords (or text) over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed.
Password Pusher is an open-source pastebins project, with 3.2k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 1072 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: Apache-2.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-14 |
| Days since last commit | 3 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 263 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 1072 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-14 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Category | Pastebins |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Password Pusher is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Actively maintained. Password Pusher recorded 1072 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 263 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2026-08-14. Committed within the last 45 days.
Password Pusher is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
21 open-source implementations, 9 of them actively maintained, led by PrivateBin at 8.5k stars. Saturation score 44/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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Minimalist pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data.
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