diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/prologic/pastebin)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/prologic/pastebin)
 [![Coverage](https://coveralls.io/repos/prologic/pastebin/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/prologic/pastebin)
 
-pastebin is a web app that allows you to create smart bookmarks, commands and aliases by pointing your web browser's default search engine at a running instance. Similar to bunny1 or yubnub.
-
-## Installation
+pastebin is a self-hosted pastebin web app that lets you create and share
+"ephemeral" data between devices and users. There is a configurable expiry
+(TTL) afterwhich the paste expires and is purged. There is also a handy
+CLI for interacting with the service in a easy way or you can also use curl!
 
 ### Source
 
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ $ go install github.com/prologic/pastebin/...
 
 ### OS X Homebrew
 
+**Coming**
+
 There is a formula provided that you can tap and install from
 [prologic/homebrew-pastebin](https://github.com/prologic/homebrew-pastebin):
 
@@ -37,12 +40,24 @@ much appreciated and highly welcome!
 Run pastebin:
 
 ```#!bash
-$ pastebin -bind 127.0.0.1:8000
+$ pastebin
 ```
 
-Set your browser's default pastebin engine to http://localhost:8000/?q=%s
+Create a paste:
 
-Then type `help` to view the main help page, `g foo bar` to perform a [Google](https://google.com) search for "foo bar" or `list` to list all available commands.
+```#!bash
+$ echo "Hello World" | pb
+http://localhost:8000/92sHUeGPfoFctazBxdEhae
+```
+
+Or use the Web UI: http://localhost:8000/
+
+Or curl:
+
+```#bash
+$ echo "hello World" | curl -q -L -d @- -o - http://localhost:8000/
+...
+```
 
 ## License
 
diff --git a/client/client.go b/client/client.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ccaeae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/client.go
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package client
+
+import (
+	"crypto/tls"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+)
+
+const (
+	contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+)
+
+// Client ...
+type Client struct {
+	url      string
+	insecure bool
+}
+
+// NewClient ...
+func NewClient(url string, insecure bool) *Client {
+	return &Client{url: url, insecure: insecure}
+}
+
+// Paste ...
+func (c *Client) Paste(body io.Reader) error {
+	tr := &http.Transport{
+		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: !c.insecure},
+	}
+	client := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
+
+	res, err := client.Post(c.url, contentType, body)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("error pasting to %s: %s", c.url, err)
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if res.StatusCode != 200 {
+		log.Printf("unexpected response from %s: %d", c.url, res.StatusCode)
+		return errors.New("unexpected response")
+	}
+
+	fmt.Printf("%s", res.Request.URL.String())
+
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/cmd/pb/main.go b/cmd/pb/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21a05f8
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+++ b/cmd/pb/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/prologic/pastebin/client"
+
+	"github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir"
+	"github.com/namsral/flag"
+)
+
+const (
+	defaultConfig     = "pastebin.conf"
+	defaultUserConfig = "~/.pastebin.conf"
+	defaultURL        = "https://localhost:8000"
+)
+
+func getDefaultConfig() string {
+	path, err := homedir.Expand(defaultUserConfig)
+	if err != nil {
+		return defaultConfig
+	}
+	return path
+}
+
+func main() {
+	var (
+		config   string
+		url      string
+		insecure bool
+	)
+
+	flag.StringVar(&config, "config", getDefaultConfig(), "path to config")
+	flag.StringVar(&url, "url", defaultURL, "pastebin service url")
+	flag.BoolVar(&insecure, "insecure", false, "insecure (skip ssl verify)")
+
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	client.NewClient(url, insecure).Paste(os.Stdin)
+}