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 — without cookies, tracking, or personal data. 🤖 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 — or just machines? Privacy-First • Zero Tracking • Open Source • Apache 2.0

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 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: • Your "10,000 monthly visitors" might be 60% bots, scrapers, and AI agents. • To get "accurate" data, you're forced to use invasive tracking, cookies, and fingerprinting. • GDPR compliance becomes a nightmare of consent banners and legal documents. • 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. 🔒 Privacy by Design — No cookies, no fingerprinting, no personal data. Ever. 2. 🤖 Human Detection — Distinguish real visitors from bots, scrapers, and AI agents using behavioral signals. 3. 🔓 Open Source — Apache 2.0 licensed. Self-host anywhere. Full code transparency. 🎯 What Signals does: • Classifies every visit with a confidence score (Human / Bot / AI Agent). • Uses 4 signal types: Browser Capabilities, Interaction Patterns, Request Analysis, and Anomaly Detection. • Publishes a public trust.json — a machine-readable promise of our ethical boundaries. • Runs on shared hosting with minimal overhead. • Requires zero consent banners for GDPR compliance. 🎯 Who it's for: • Indie hackers tired of inflated metrics. • Open-source maintainers who need real usage data. • Privacy-first businesses that refuse surveillance capitalism. • Anyone who believes metrics should reflect reality, not marketing goals. 🎯 What I'm looking for today: • Feedback on detection accuracy for your traffic. • Thoughts on the trust.json concept — should more tools do this? • Ideas for new signal types or integrations. • Bug reports from self-hosted deployments. Try the live demo at signals.lyfmail.com — 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! 🙏

Signals - Privacy-first analytics that separate humans from bots.

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