Captcha to detect bots with a simple question
Details
- External ID
- 47703682
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Captcha to detect bots with a simple question
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- April 9, 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
- social media violation reporting automation
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- question-based captcha for bot detection
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 118 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 119 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 152 days after the earliest competitor.
- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Cerno · hn · 2026-03-31 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CaptchaX · github · 2026-09-17 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Mousecrack · hn · 2026-07-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- facebook-reporting-bot · github · 2026-09-20 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Knock-Knock.net · hn · 2026-02-15 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- facebook-reporting-bot · github · 2026-09-11 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a compliance & governance tool for Media & entertainment yet.