PasteCloak
Check for API keys before you paste into AI tools
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Press ⌘⇧V on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows instead of a normal paste. PasteCloak scans your clipboard for credentials and previews what it would redact. It uses regular expressions, so it can miss unusual formats. No account. 14 days free.
PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Privacy
- Developer Tools
- Security
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More like this: all 260 launches in application and system security scanners →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop clipboard hook that applies regex patterns to detect credentials and shows a redaction preview, a well-scoped utility.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 190 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #82 of 191 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- PasteZero · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PasteNook · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Paste MCP & AI Tools · ph · 2026-06-02 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PasteGuard · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Clipboard Sanitizer · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PasteNotch · ph · 2026-11-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Clipori · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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