ClipPath
Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal
Details
- External ID
- 47010195
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ClipPath
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6711590296495957
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert screenshots to terminal file paths
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A small CLI or daemon that monitors the system clipboard for image buffers, writes them to a temporary file, and prints or pipes the path to the terminal can be built in a few hours using Python or Rust.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 333 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #116 of 334 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
- Simple Screenshot Copy · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- lime · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- BinToImage · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PicXure · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- shotcandy · github · 2026-09-26 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- LumaShot · github · 2026-09-27 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TakeFullPage · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Bezel · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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