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My tool scanned 256 AI-built apps and most had exposed credentials

Details

External ID
49174388
Source
HN
Company
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Product
My tool scanned 256 AI-built apps and most had exposed credentials
Website domain
necktochoke.com
Launched
Aug. 4, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.12634408602150538
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

All of a sudden everybody wants to build with AI. People in hell want ice water. Built something with AI and don't know if it's secure? Try necktochoke.

Enrichment

Theme
AI developer tools and resources
Vertical
Security
Function
Observability & eval
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
scan ai-built apps for exposed credentials
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A web vulnerability scanner that performs basic HTTP GET requests to check security headers, SSL status, and probe for exposed public files like .env or .git.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 22 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #20 of 23 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a observability & eval tool for Media & entertainment yet.