---
title: "Deploy MicroBin"
description: "A file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/qJ-PpH
---

# Deploy MicroBin

A file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.

**[Deploy MicroBin on Railway](https://railway.com/template/qJ-PpH)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/qJ-PpH/manifest.json

- **Creator:** Lucas's Projects
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 22

## Template content

### microbin

- **Image:** danielszabo99/microbin
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

## Overview

MicroBin is a super tiny, feature rich, configurable, self-contained and self-hosted paste bin web application. It is very easy to set up and use, and will only require a few megabytes of memory and disk storage. It takes only a couple minutes to set it up, why not give it a try now?

## What is an upload?

In MicroBin, an upload can be:

- A text that you want to paste from one machine to another, eg. some code,
- A file that you want to share, eg. a video that is too large for Discord, a zip with a code project in it or an image,
- A URL redirection.

## When is MicroBin useful?

You can use MicroBin:

- To send long texts to other people,
- To send large files to other people,
- To share secrets or sensitive documents securely,
- As a URL shortener/redirect service,
- To serve content on the web, eg. configuration files for testing, images, or any other file content using the Raw functionality,
- To move files between your desktop and a server you access from the console,
- As a "postbox" service where people can upload their files or texts, but they cannot see or remove what others sent you,
- Or even to take quick notes.

...and many other things, why not get creative?

## Features

- Entirely self-contained executable, MicroBin is a single file!
- Server-side and client-side encryption
- File uploads (eg. `server.com/file/pig-dog-cat`)
- Raw text serving (eg. `server.com/raw/pig-dog-cat`)
- QR code support
- URL shortening and redirection
- Animal names instead of random numbers for upload identifiers (64 animals)
- SQLite and JSON database support
- Private and public, editable and uneditable, automatically and never expiring uploads
- Automatic dark mode and custom styling support with very little CSS and only vanilla JS (see [`water.css`](https://github.com/kognise/water.css))
- And much more!

## Note
This template is NOT maintained by the team behind PicoShare.

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