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Signals
Privacy-first analytics that separate humans from bots.
A privacy-first, open-source analytics toolkit that detects real human visitors from bots, scrapers, and AI agents β without cookies, tracking, or personal data. π€ Human Analytics for a Post-Bot Internet Signals is a privacy-first, ethical analytics toolkit built to answer a single, urgent question: Are real humans actually visiting your website β or just machines? Privacy-First β’ Zero Tracking β’ Open Source β’ Apache 2.0
Hey Product Hunt! π
I'm the maker behind Signals, and I built this because I was fed up with one simple truth: most website analytics are lying to us.
Here's what I mean:
β’ Your "10,000 monthly visitors" might be 60% bots, scrapers, and AI agents.
β’ To get "accurate" data, you're forced to use invasive tracking, cookies, and fingerprinting.
β’ GDPR compliance becomes a nightmare of consent banners and legal documents.
β’ And at the end of it all, you still don't know if real humans are actually engaging with your content.
I tried every analytics tool out there. They all had the same problem: they either violate privacy OR they can't tell humans from machines.
So I built Signals with three non-negotiables:
1. π Privacy by Design β No cookies, no fingerprinting, no personal data. Ever.
2. π€ Human Detection β Distinguish real visitors from bots, scrapers, and AI agents using behavioral signals.
3. π Open Source β Apache 2.0 licensed. Self-host anywhere. Full code transparency.
π― What Signals does:
β’ Classifies every visit with a confidence score (Human / Bot / AI Agent).
β’ Uses 4 signal types: Browser Capabilities, Interaction Patterns, Request Analysis, and Anomaly Detection.
β’ Publishes a public trust.json β a machine-readable promise of our ethical boundaries.
β’ Runs on shared hosting with minimal overhead.
β’ Requires zero consent banners for GDPR compliance.
π― Who it's for:
β’ Indie hackers tired of inflated metrics.
β’ Open-source maintainers who need real usage data.
β’ Privacy-first businesses that refuse surveillance capitalism.
β’ Anyone who believes metrics should reflect reality, not marketing goals.
π― What I'm looking for today:
β’ Feedback on detection accuracy for your traffic.
β’ Thoughts on the trust.json concept β should more tools do this?
β’ Ideas for new signal types or integrations.
β’ Bug reports from self-hosted deployments.
Try the live demo at signals.lyfmail.com β paste your own site or test with the sample data. See the confidence scores in real time.
Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out! π
About Signals on Product Hunt
βPrivacy-first analytics that separate humans from bots.β
Signals was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #32 on the daily leaderboard. A privacy-first, open-source analytics toolkit that detects real human visitors from bots, scrapers, and AI agents β without cookies, tracking, or personal data. π€ Human Analytics for a Post-Bot Internet Signals is a privacy-first, ethical analytics toolkit built to answer a single, urgent question: Are real humans actually visiting your website β or just machines? Privacy-First β’ Zero Tracking β’ Open Source β’ Apache 2.0
On the analytics side, Signals competes within Open Source, Analytics, Privacy and GitHub β topics that collectively have 293.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Signals performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Signals?
Signals was hunted by AJAY K C. A βhunterβ on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform β 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 Signals including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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