Bullshit Detector
agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
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HN · launched Jul 29, 2026 · 65 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: autonomous ai research agents · 109 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes An agent skill that extracts transcripts or article text and passes them to an LLM with web-search access to fact-check claims is a straightforward pipeline to vibe-code.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAI as a judge for fact-checking, Gemini and Fabel (LLMs for verification), arXiv papers for source citation, TikTok, YouTube Shorts for short-form content, Browser extension/plugin approach
Concerns raised: Major news outlets (Reuters, NYT, Guardian) reject agent access to content, Search results inconsistent across minutes, low overlap in sources, LLMs can't catch logical fallacies or bad reasoning from true premises, Report generation takes minutes, too slow for real-time fact-checking, Doesn't work with short-form video content efficiently
Feature requests: Ability to fact-check before publishing content, Integration as browser extension/plugin, Support for transcribing and checking video content locally, Improved access to credible news sources for citations, Logic/inference validation in addition to claim verification
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2775 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #313 of 2776 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- Skill-up · hn · 2026-07-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- genpark-agent-hallucination-fact-verifier-skill · github · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- tutorial-video-skill · github · 2026-10-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- fomo-cc · github · 2026-09-29 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- research_skills · github · 2026-10-26 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- search-answer-reviewer · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Implement-spec · hn · 2026-08-04 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Agent Readiness Score · hn · 2026-02-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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