When I first thought of — and implemented — clipboard-watcher I knew I will then have to build something like dot-clipboard.

It tooks me a few hours of hard passionate work with NodeJS fs.watch and clipboard-watcher to build the core and a few more hours to write the first download-gif script.

I really liked playing with the idea of script hot-reload and auto-checking. Actually some of these parts are already re-used inside an upcoming project that is targeting a much larger problem : website and SaaS performance... At the time of writing we already have a functional prototype but I will share more on this later...

Coming back to dot-clipboard, the release went well : first page on Hacker News, more than 3 000 unique visitors on Github and some interesting tweets :

yeah @FGRibreau did another useful tool for #osx users https://t.co/XfDPgDnfkn
— Quentin ADAM (@waxzce) August 21, 2014

Wow this is awsome: https://t.co/WiKHA0yfYr : dot-clipboard monitors your clipboard and runs scripts based on its content #JavaScript
— Harish Anchu (@harishanchu) August 22, 2014

Yo! Archive your clipboard. Now I'd only need a Alfred-esque UI on top and I'd be in <3. http://t.co/Og4rZdzLpD
— Tobias Deekens (@tdeekens) August 21, 2014

Lol,what a "great" idea. *starts reading* Wait, this actually sounds good. :| https://t.co/6u3VP6aaOS
— zblesk (@Zblesk) August 21, 2014

Take your clipboard to a whole new level. See https://t.co/eO6EGvCSR1 #javascript #awesomeness
— Augustus D'Souza (@augiwan) August 22, 2014

Now let's see what scripts the JavaScript/NodeJS community will build!