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BetScan
Stop guessing if an online casino is legitimate or fake.
Free browser extension that checks if any online casino is safe before you deposit. Verifies gambling licenses, Trustpilot ratings, AskGamblers complaints and community sentiment in under 2 seconds. No account, no tracking.
hello everyone, I’m one of the creators behind BetScan, and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you today.
The story behind this project started with a bad personal experience. A while ago, I signed up for an online casino that looked totally professional, but later I discovered their regulatory license credentials displayed in the footer were completely fake and untrackable. When I tried to withdraw my money, they simply ghosted me.
After checking tech forums and communities, I realized that millions of users face this exact same trap every day. People are constantly asking, "Is this site a scam?" or "Is this license legit?", but the only answers they get are unverified opinions.
Since no one was providing a real technical solution, I teamed up with two friends to build BetScan.
Our goal is simple: to bring transparency to a market that desperately needs it. BetScan is a lightweight Chrome extension that acts as a real-time safety layer. It automatically audits the casino’s TLD, cross-references it with our backend infrastructure, and checks if the declared regulatory licenses are actually valid or just a clever clone setup.
To make it truly bulletproof, we built the UI using a shadowDOM container. This keeps our extension’s code completely isolated, meaning the casino’s own scripts cannot tamper with, read, or manipulate the safety report displayed to the user (shoutout to anti-XSS best practices).
We just got approved on the Chrome Web Store and our stable build is officially live. We are already working on future updates to tighten our database logic, but the core engine is up, running, and ready to protect users.
Since we are independent developers launching in a completely new niche, we would love to get your brutal feedback:
Would you trust an extension to verify this kind of regulatory data?
How can we make the UI feel even more transparent and bulletproof?
If you are an extension dev, what are your thoughts on our shadowDOM approach for third-party site interactions?
The team and I will be around all day to answer your questions, reply to comments, and chat about the tech behind it.
Thank you so much for your support!
About BetScan on Product Hunt
“Stop guessing if an online casino is legitimate or fake.”
BetScan was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 19 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. Free browser extension that checks if any online casino is safe before you deposit. Verifies gambling licenses, Trustpilot ratings, AskGamblers complaints and community sentiment in under 2 seconds. No account, no tracking.
On the analytics side, BetScan competes within Chrome Extensions, Developer Tools and Security — topics that collectively have 569.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BetScan performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BetScan?
BetScan was hunted by marco landi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of BetScan including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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