This section documents the journey of building PasteDB. It includes milestones, technical challenges, setbacks, major decisions and lessons learned throughout development.

📅 2 May 2026 — Planning

I thought of making another project.Which could give me real user and experience,I first thought of big projects like a social media app, etc
But I saw code sharing is not easy, if easy not secure, if secure then no good design and if all there are in a paste sharing app then lack of cool features I started PasteDB On 2 May 2026, I started the repo Yes a blank repo and first commit was fired, the Initial Commit for readme. When the repo made, many questions in my mind will i be able to make it? would i get real users?if yes how much?if no why?

📅 2 May 2026 — Files

i started making the MVP, THE basic app I made the files frontend/index.html and frontend/create.html and backend/main.py the whole project was to be made from HTML FASTAPI and for storage MongoDB Atlas

📅 3 May 2026 — Small changes to go

This day i changed the create.html from almost 0 to 789 lines i declared index.html to be Under Development along with that i also started building the main.py i thought mvp is ready

📅 4 May 2026 — Some security

Created dashboard.html and also worked to make it FUNCTIONAL i just added a SINGLE Continue with Google Button for registerations and logins , yes only that one button and after struggling for a few hours in evening i did it well dashboard become functional

📅 18 May 2026 onwards — Big Break

18th May onwards i stopped PasteDB project and started working on other project, i thought nothing more can i do on PasteDB
I even stopped maintaining the server where backend was hosted i thought this project FAILED!!!

📅 10 June 2026 — After Big Break

After taking long break for PasteDB i wanted to participate in a hackathon, i saw devpost, i participated with PasteDB on devpost, so in that case I again started working on it i requested indexing for homepage and create page on google search console

Status of PasteDB after 10 June

i started for seo i didnt have money to buy a custom domain, i had a subdomain pastedb.netlify.app, i didnt ran for money and fancy domains that time. i tried to post PasteDB on reddit, but reddit moderators deleted my posts, i went on dev to , i got great response, users followed me, asked about PasteDB During this on 13 July i integrated Google Analytics 4 to track users

Mid of July 2026

At this period i was calm on coding but more active on seo and getting users on 22 july 6:30pm i saw analytics , 98 active users 98 new users Very close to 100 and 5 returning users users came from various places most of them were from USA and most have iPhone

22 July 2026 - 8PM

I was writing THIS article of my journey

Struggles on Resources

i had a Samsung galaxy m21 with 64gb internal storage and a 10 year old (around 2010 year) laptop of dell with i3 processor, and model was Inspiron N5010, Laptop was slow as it had a Hard drive Now PasteDB comprises of Web Interface Python SDK And VS code extension first 2 parts , the Web interface and SDK were made on a Samsung Galaxy M21 where Extension was made on that laptop Firtly i had 2 versions of extension for user use To make sdk and extension work api keys were essential espicially for extension so along with sdk i also made an api key managment system for each user Now i hardly spemt 3 months on PasteDB, from building, development, deployment, SEO, adding useful features, etc more festures can be added but that now more than sufficient features were added.

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