Hexlock
Replace PII in text with fake data that has the same format
Details
- External ID
- 47963789
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hexlock
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- replace pii with format-matching fake data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A tool that detects PII using regular expressions or named entity recognition models and swaps them with format-preserving fake data (similar to Faker) is readily buildable via standard libraries.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 99 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #88 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Pixvisor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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