Paste Cleaner

Strip timestamps, edit markers, and weird formatting on paste

Problem

Copying between Slack, Claude, GPT, and Gmail constantly requires manual cleanup: removing timestamps, deleting Slack's '(edited)', converting API fields to inline code, and killing weird highlighting. Prompting AI for formatting rules is inconsistent and forgets the rules the next day.

Solution

A clipboard middle layer that cleans text deterministically before paste: strips timestamps, removes edit markers, converts fields to inline code, normalizes quotes and spaces. Rules are deterministic, configurable, importable, and can be chained per target app.

Users

Knowledge workers, developers, technical writers, support teams, anyone switching between many apps

MVP

Menu bar desktop tool; watch clipboard changes with preview; 10 built-in cleaning rules; per-target-app rule chains; one-key manual re-clean

Revenue

Free desktop client, Pro subscription ($2-4/mo) for rule chains, team sync, and batch mode

Why now

AI has multiplied the amount of copy-pasted text and formatting noise, yet deterministic cleaning is exactly the kind of thing that should not be left to a model