Layerleak
Like Trufflehog, but for Docker Hub
Details
- External ID
- 47534578
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Layerleak
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5781057810578106
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- secret scanning for docker hub
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It downloads Docker image manifests and tarballs from Docker Hub, extracts the layers, and runs regex/secret scanning rules against the unpacked filesystem layers.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Trufflehog - docker image scanning
Concerns raised: Trufflehog requires docker daemon and is resource intensive, Performance - layerleak slower than trufflehog (26s vs 19s in testing), Unclear product positioning vs competitors
Feature requests: Clarify branding - don't reference competitor in main tag/README
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 128 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pglayers · hn · 2026-07-01 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Docky.rs · github · 2026-09-10 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Lambdock · hn · 2026-08-11 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Patchium · github · 2026-09-28 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- DockForge · github · 2026-09-23 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mushak · hn · 2025-12-21 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- docklock-yihui · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SCADarina · github · 2026-09-21 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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