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HN · launched Jan 27, 2026 · 106 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views
Niche: regulatory compliance management software · 279 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -52% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 279 launches in regulatory compliance management software →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a web auditing tool that inspects a website's loaded third-party assets, DNS, and IP hosting locations to flag non-EU service dependencies.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GeoIP services (oschwald/geoip2-golang), ASN lookup databases, Registrar/DNS location checkers
Concerns raised: False positives detecting links as hosting dependencies, US-hosted sites not detected, scoring 100%, ASN-only approach has gaps, needs GeoIP fallback, AWS/Cloudflare/CDN detection spotty or missing, Migration cost estimates too high for small sites
Feature requests: Differentiate links vs embeds in scoring, Add registrar and TLD jurisdiction checks, Add DNS location/proxy detection, DNS/registrar checks v2, Self-hosting capability via Docker
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 330 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 85 days after the earliest competitor.
- EU Leadership · hn · 2026-03-31 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- securify · github · 2026-10-06 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- AI Law Tracker · hn · 2026-07-16 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Speartip.eu · hn · 2026-09-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Pageguard · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- A live badge that proves your SaaS runs on EU infrastructure · hn · 2026-07-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- athenxiv · github · 2026-10-03 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- We served 5k dynamic websites from a 2-vCPU, 4 GB VPS · hn · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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