HoundDog.ai – Ultra-Fast Code Scanner for Data Privacy
Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of HoundDog.ai (https://github.com/hounddogai/hounddog). We currently handle privacy scanning for Replit's 45M+ creators. We built HoundDog because privacy compliance is usually a choice between manual spreadsheets or reactive runtime scanning. While runtime tools are useful for monitoring, they only catch leaks after the code is live and the data has already moved. They can also miss code paths that aren't actively triggered in production. HoundDog traces sensitive data in code during development and helps catch risky flows (e.g., PII…
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HoundDog.ai is a code scanner that detects sensitive data leaks during development before code ships to production. Built for developers and privacy teams, it traces how personally identifiable information and other protected data flow through codebases, catching risky patterns like PII in logs or unapproved third-party integrations. The standalone Rust-based scanner runs locally without LLMs, making it fast and deterministic—capable of scanning over a million lines of code in seconds while supporting 80+ sensitive data types.
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Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of HoundDog.ai (https://github.com/hounddogai/hounddog). We currently handle privacy scanning for Replit's 45M+ creators. We built HoundDog because privacy compliance is usually a choice between manual spreadsheets or reactive runtime scanning. While runtime tools are useful for monitoring, they only catch leaks after the code is live and the data has already moved. They can also miss code paths that aren't actively triggered in production. HoundDog traces sensitive data in code during development and helps catch risky flows (e.g., PII leaking into logs or unapproved third-party SDKs) before the code is shipped. The core scanner is a standalone Rust binary. It doesn't use LLMs so it's local, deterministic, cheap, and fast. It can scan 1M+ lines of code in seconds on a standard laptop, and supports 80+ sensitive data types (PII, PHI, CHD) and hundreds of data sinks (logs, SDKs, APIs, ORMs etc.) out of the box. We use AI internally to expand and scale our rules, identifying new data sources and sinks, but the execution is pure static analysis. The scanner is free to use (no signups) so please try it out and send us feedback. I'll be around to answer any questions!
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