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Everything lived somewhere else. So I built one box.
I kept running into the same thing. I would have something worth sending someone, a set of notes, a draft, a report, a half-finished thought, and the first question was never is this any good. It was where does this go.
Every tool covered a slice of it, and the slices never lined up.
- A markdown note→ a gist, or a doc nobody finds again
- A PDF→ an email attachment, or a Drive link with the wrong permissions
- A rough snippet→ a pastebin that expires, or a chat message that scrolls away
- A link too long to send→ yet another shortener, yet another account
- A file I need from someone→ email it, and hope it is under 25 MB
- Something for the team→ a wiki nobody opens
Four apps, four accounts, four different ideas of what “shared” means, and a week later nobody could find any of it. The hard part was never writing the thing. It was deciding where it belonged, over and over.
So Kagoj does one thing. You paste or upload whatever you have, and you get back a clean page on one short link. Markdown, HTML, a PDF, a screenshot, a source file, plain text. Same box, same link.
Paste a link rather than content and there is nothing to render, so it just shortens it. That was never meant to be a separate product, and it turned out not to need one: a shortened link is a Kagoj page like any other, which is why you can expire it, burn it after one read, or put a passphrase on it, and see how many people actually clicked.
The same box works backwards too. A link can ask for a file instead of handing one over, so somebody without an account can send you something and it lands on your shelf, with limits you set and nobody else able to see it.
The sharing is the part I actually cared about. Most tools offer two settings: locked, or a link anyone can forward forever. Work does not divide that neatly. A Kagoj page can be public, or link-only, or limited to your team, or to a few named people. You can change your mind later and the link still works.
You do not need an account to start. Paste something and it works straight away, then clears itself after a day. Sign in when you want to keep it. Shortened links are the exception, since one that stops working in a day is not a link worth handing anybody.
Built by Shadman Taqi
Founder, engineer and author, based in Dhaka. I run Phoenix Education and Automata One, and I build the software they depend on. I have also written eight admission books, which have sold more than 50,000 copies between them. Kagoj started as something I needed myself, and I use it every day.