I made a free log anonymizer in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 46091442
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a free log anonymizer in the browser
- Website domain
- getloglens.com
- Launched
- Nov. 29, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based log anonymizer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a client-side web utility applying regular expressions in JavaScript to detect and mask common PII patterns (IPs, emails, API keys) from raw log text.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missed SSID and 'password' keyword in mocked logs, Unclear if using BERT or similar entity detection vs regex
Feature requests: Add more fields/keywords for sanitization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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