Privacy focused client side password generator
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HN · launched Aug 19, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 53%) · 0 views
Niche: password management tools · 92 launches, 18 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 92 launches in password management tools →
Could you build this?
Yes A client-side password generator requires only minimal HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript using window.crypto.getRandomValues.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: local password generators, regex-based password generators, TanStack Router alternatives
Concerns raised: security risk of using online password generators, difficulty verifying client-side claims with obfuscated JavaScript, potential for service to change over time, unnecessary use of TanStack Router for single-page app
Feature requests: regex-based password constraints
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1201 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #586 of 1202 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
- Password-generator · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Selvum · hn · 2026-08-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 · hn · 2026-05-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- password-security-lab · github · 2026-10-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- QuickTokenGen · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Pwnbox · github · 2026-10-19 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- one-password-manager · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Arken · hn · 2026-10-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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