Etchv
invisible forensic watermarks in images, PDFs and videos
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Etchv embeds invisible forensic watermarks into images, PDFs, and short videos that survive screenshots, format changes, and compression. https://etchv.com/#try-it Key Features • A unique forensic watermark, written into the pixels by a neural net model, and made to survive resizing, cropping and compression. • Flexible Integration: Supports a direct developer API alongside official SDKs • No-Code Automation: Integrates with Zapier, n8n, and Make. • Live Demo: https://etchv.com/demo/trace
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 62 upvotes (top 3%)
- Security
- Compliance & governance
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Google Cloud Run
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See all 178 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The UI and file handling are easy, but the invisible watermark must survive screenshots, resizing, and compression, which needs a trained robust-watermarking model and real evaluation rather than vibe-coded glue.
What it would actually take: A real version would train or fine-tune an encoder/decoder watermarking network (in the style of StegaStamp or HiDDeN) with heavy distortion augmentation, then deploy it via PyTorch or ONNX with a video pipeline. The hard part is ML research and robustness testing, which requires ML engineering expertise and GPU training.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
- Detect AI Watermarks · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Watermark Eraser · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Digital-Forensics-Lab-Experiments · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- df-labexperiments · github · 2026-09-23 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AI Watermark Detector · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Watermarks Remover: Clean LLM watermarks from text and files · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CleanMD · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Saferlayer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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