Moat
Bots can't steal what they can't read
Details
- External ID
- 1246959
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Moat
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- News, API, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Description
An API that allows you to hide your text from text scrapers, without losing any features that readers expect.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- bot protection for web content
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Converting text into canvas/SVG rendering commands or custom scrambled web fonts while maintaining standard browser Ctrl+F search, screen-reader accessibility, and clickable links is technically challenging low-level frontend engineering.
What it would actually take: Building Moat requires custom font obfuscation (generating on-the-fly glyph subsets with randomized unicode mappings) or canvas rendering engines combined with custom DOM overlays. The hardest parts are maintaining headless browser / bot opacity while preserving native keyboard search (Ctrl+F) via hidden shadow DOM or synthesized events and synthesizing accessible audio TTS narration. Specialized reverse-engineering of crawler behavior and deep DOM/font manipulation skills are required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- Bravo Crawler Hunter · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Ronami · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage · hn · 2026-03-12 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Captcha to detect bots with a simple question · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Robots.txt Editor & Validator · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A Bluesky bot that shares Wikipedia links from the HN front page · hn · 2026-09-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Alovia · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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