Backlink ∞
A backlink is from one website to another, a vote of trust.
Details
- External ID
- 1250814
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backlink Vigil
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Marketing, SEO, SaaS, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Marketing
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- backlink network for website owners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building an actual backlink index requires an internet-scale web crawler, massive distributed storage, and real-time link graph indexing across billions of web pages.
What it would actually take: A legitimate backlink platform requires a massive distributed web crawler (similar to Common Crawl or Ahrefs) managing millions of continuous HTTP requests, petabyte-scale link graph databases (e.g., ClickHouse, ScyllaDB, or distributed Bigtable), and graph processing pipelines (e.g., Apache Spark). The hardest parts are handling bot detection, parsing hundreds of millions of HTML pages daily, maintaining fresh DNS/IP routing infrastructure, and calculating link metrics at scale. It demands dedicated distributed systems engineers and massive cloud infrastructure spend.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 240 days after the earliest competitor.
- Backlink Pros · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Letlink · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- AnyBacklink.com · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Linkers · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- BACKD.io · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Index Your Link · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Klinky · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Linkary · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39