Almost two months ago I had a "Show HN" which was a "flop" (1 vote, 1 comment).<p>I had built a product with a couple of beta customers (known friends and family) after realizing it would be "nice" to check if a given link was malicious before clicking on it.<p>Soon enough, it became clear it was burdensome to copy a link and paste it somewhere else to verify it. Ideally, this check would happen at the platform level (even OS on things like iOS/Android), so I pivoted.<p>After believing there was some interest online in other communities, and investigating competitors, eventually I ended up with a product which works well for analyzing malicious links, emails, messages, and images. It has a really simple API, no-subscription pricing (you buy a bunch of credits and use them until you run out and top it off again), and I don't even have accounts or store emails. I also built a bunch of simple SDKs for Python, JavaScript, Go, and CLI.<p>But no one wants it.<p>Big platforms are invested in much larger competitors (which also do "is this AI?" checks), and smaller platforms don't really have a content moderation problem until they become bigger.<p>Was this a bad bet? Is there really no interest for this, or am I just not finding the right people or the right way to communicate what problem this solves?<p>I don't want to share the link here to avoid people thinking I'm just trying to get visits. I'm genuinely trying to understand if this is a problem or not, to either drop it, or invest more time in it.<p>Thank you so much for your time!