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-Modern pastebin service with a restful like api written in golang.
+Modern self-hosted pastebin service with a restful API.
+
+## Motivation
+Many Pastebin services exist but all are more complicated than they need to be.
+That is why I decided to write a pastebin service in golang.
 
 ![paste](http://i.imgur.com/7BeCKa3.png)