Frictionless

Built ClipStack, a clipboard history manager that fixes something everyone deals with: you copy something new and the old thing is just gone. It keeps a searchable, persistent history of everything you've copied — no account, no backend, everything stored locally in your own browser.

The trickiest part was the core constraint: browsers won't let a webpage listen to your clipboard in the background for security reasons. Instead of trying to fake that, I designed around it — a persistent input box at the top logs anything you paste into it, so "paste here" becomes the natural workflow rather than a limitation you have to work against.

Three things I focused on making genuinely useful rather than just checkboxes:
- Instant fuzzy search across your whole history, filterable by content type (try typing "url")
- One-click actions on every entry — copy back, pin, delete, open links directly, live color swatch preview for hex codes
- Smart auto-cleanup that expires old unpinned entries automatically, but with an undo toast so nothing's ever really gone

I'm most proud of the auto-cleanup + undo system — it's the kind of small detail that's easy to skip but makes the whole thing feel trustworthy instead of like something that'll randomly eat your clipboard history.

To test it: open the link, paste a few different things (a URL, some code, a hex color like #3b82f6, plain text) into the box at the top, and try searching, pinning, and letting something auto-expire to see the undo toast. It's fully client-side, so your data stays local to your browser only.