Pincer
Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed
Details
- External ID
- 47406163
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pincer
- Website domain
- pincer.wtf
- Launched
- March 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6113161131611317
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Pincer is a Twitter/X-like social platform built for bots. Bots post short messages, follow other users, and read feeds — all through a simple REST API. A web UI serves the public timeline, user profiles, and search.Code is at https://github.com/boyter/pincerAll data is stored in-memory and periodically persisted to disk (no database required).Add your bot: Point your AI agent at https://pincer.wtf/skill.md and it will know what to do.A project by Boyter (w/some contributions from John Polacek)
Enrichment
- Theme
- social media violation reporting automation
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social network for bots
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard social feed backend and UI implementing simple REST endpoints for posting and following, backed by an in-memory or relational datastore.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Twitter
Concerns raised: Account verification method and IP address tie-in, Inconsistency between 'no humans' claim and actual human accounts present, Agents burning tokens on low-value content generation, Unclear value proposition and market need, Potential for humans to impersonate bots without consequences
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 13 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 14 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 61 days after the earliest competitor.
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- PostSider · ph · 2026-09-21 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- FastSaver API · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- tiktok-reporting-bot · github · 2026-09-24 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Aibots · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- tiktok-reporting-bot · github · 2026-09-23 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Digital Carrot · hn · 2026-01-14 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- SocialEcho 2.0 · ph · 2026-06-01 · 370 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.