Captcha to detect bots with a simple question
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HN · launched Apr 9, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: bot detection and captcha software · 32 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Compliance & governance
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A text-based question captcha verification endpoint and minimal frontend widget can easily be generated and deployed with any basic web backend.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: May be training LLMs rather than actually verifying humans, False positives marking humans as bots for legitimate responses
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 332 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #313 of 333 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 154 days after the earliest competitor.
- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Cerno · hn · 2026-03-31 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- CaptchaX · github · 2026-09-17 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Mousecrack · hn · 2026-07-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ERP-Captcha-Reader · github · 2026-10-09 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Knock-Knock.net · hn · 2026-02-15 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- astrbot-persona-prompts · github · 2026-10-15 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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