this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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I don't understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere... the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others... but nobody seems to care about those.
Probably a similar reason as to why we don't hear about the other potential hundreds of competing products or solutions to the same problem (in general).
Luck.
It's just not fair in our world.
Probably because the creator had a blog post that got shared around at a point in time where this exact problem was resonating with users.
It's not always about being first but about marketing.
And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup.
I'm even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn't insignificant.
Compare and contrast.
Sounds like some over priced, vacuous, do-everything solution. Looks and sounds like every other tech website. Looks like it is meant to appeal to the people who still say "cyber". Looks and sounds like fauxpen source.
Cute. Adorable. Baby girl. Protect my website. Looks fun. Has one clear goal.