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Semantic Clipboard History

Finds anything you copied last week by meaning, not exact words.

Intermediate24h1–2 people15/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Semantic Clipboard History for developers, writers and researchers in ~24h with 1–2 people. Stack: Electron + Transformers.js + SQLite.

Why it wins: Daily pain, private by design, instant demo.

Build flow

01 · Problem
You copied that link or snippet days ago and now it’s gone.
02 · Solution
A desktop app keeps clipboard history and searches it semantically with on-device embeddings.
03 · Build
  1. 1Clipboard listener
  2. 2Store items in SQLite
  3. 3Embed locally
  4. 4Search window + hotkey
04 · Demo
Search “that pricing table from Tuesday” → the right snippet appears.

MVP checklist

  • Clipboard capture
  • On-device embeddings
  • Semantic search
  • Pin + delete

Tech stack

TechRole
ElectronDesktop app shell
Transformers.jsOn-device ML models
SQLiteEmbedded database

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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