Phishing Lens

Inspiration

We wanted to make something that could improve safety on your computer, and prevent phishing attacks and other malicious websites.

What it does

Whenever you open a link on your computer, we preload a preview on our servers and send an image to you, so you can decide before you load the site on your computer if you want to go there or not. We also provide a security score for the site.

How we built it

We built it using electron, nextjs and typescript. The backend that handles the requests is built using typescript and python.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult to figure out a way to detect clicking a link. We decided to make our app the default web browser so the OS redirects links to us.

What we learned

We learned we should get better at brainstorming, we spent 7 hours before we started working on anything.

Built With

• electron
• nextjs
• python
• typescript