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Is this photo edited? Client-side image forensics

Details

External ID
49641861
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Is this photo edited? Client-side image forensics
Website domain
vajba.com
Launched
Sept. 10, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
9
Upvotes percentile
0.5422647527910686
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
niche creative and graphics software
Vertical
Security
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
browser-based image forensics tool for detecting photo manipulation
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Client-side image forensics featuring DCT double-quantization, displacement-vector copy-move clustering, and C2PA cryptographic validation demands deep expertise in signal processing and cryptography.

What it would actually take: A production version requires compiling low-level JPEG parsers and cryptographic engines to WebAssembly to extract raw DCT coefficients and validate C2PA X.509 certificate chains entirely in-browser. The forensic suite demands custom implementations of discrete cosine transform histogram analysis, Fourier spectral slope calculations, and spatial feature matching executed inside parallel Web Workers. This requires extensive mathematical domain expertise in signal processing, steganography, and image encoding standards.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Vague or AI-generated copy on homepage, Does not provide definitive proof of tampering

Feature requests: Remove vague LLM-generated copy from homepage

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 347 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #145 of 348 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

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