▲ 1 r/SideProject
Built a registry that certifies human and AI content at the moment of creation in 4 months
Hi! For the past few months I've been working on a side project and would like to hear your feedback!
I work in tech, and have seen firsthand that AI detectors are a losing battle, and so I wanted to start a project that did this with a different approach. So I built Varde. The idea was instead of trying to detect AI later, you certify human and AI content at the moment of creation.
If you write a text or take a photo, you upload it to Varde and it gets "frozen". We hash your content and a fingerprint is created and anchored permanently to Base blockchain. Your content itself is never stored, only the proof. (What's on the blockchain is unreadable as content, it's just a fingerprint so no one can reconstruct your photo or text from it.)
Later, anyone can drop that same file into the verifier and instantly see if it's in the registry, when it was created, and whether any AI traces were detected. Even if someone took your content and slightly changed it, we look up the ID internally and match it with content similar.
The privacy here was important to me, and so your content is transformed into a fingerprint, and that + any biometrics or metadata is all that is saved. The fingerprint can't be reverse-engineered. Only someone with the original file can prove a exact match.
Built this in a few months on and off with AI Agents doing a lot of heavy lifting on the backend, and lovable for the frontend.
If you wanna check it out an give some feedback i'd appreciate it!
varde.network
u/Famous-Jackfruit-898 — 2 months ago
I built a tool that lets photographers prove their photos are real and human-taken
Hi.
AI takes up a lot of space online with now both text and generated photos. I find this a bit annoying to deal with having to look if a image is real or not, and so I built Varde. Instead of trying to detect AI after the fact, you certify your photos at the moment you take or upload them.
When you upload a photo, Varde reads your camera EXIF data (make, model, lens, settings), scans for AI watermarks, creates a cryptographic fingerprint before posting it permanently to Base blockchain. You get a Varde ID and a certificate of authenticity. (Your photo itself is never stored, only the fingerprint.)
No one can reconstruct your image from what's on the blockchain, and only the person with the original can prove the authenticity.
I would really like to get feedback from photographers on this if you have any. Does this solve a real pain point?
It's free, and we never see or store any of your images, just the fingerprint.
I know this has all the scammy buzzwords in the dictionary, but i have tried to make something that lets us deal with this noise in a better way. if you're interested, please check it out on varde .network
thanks!
u/Famous-Jackfruit-898 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/lovable
I built a blockchain registry that proves whether a photo or text is human-made or AI-generated
Hi!
For the past few months I've been working on a project in Lovable and would like to hear your feedback!
I work in tech, and have seen firsthand that AI detectors are a losing battle, and so I wanted to start a project that did this with a different approach. So I built Varde. The idea was instead of trying to detect AI later, you certify human and AI content at the moment of creation.
If you write a text or take a photo, you upload it to Varde and it gets "frozen". We hash your content and a fingerprint is created and anchored permanently to Base blockchain. Your content itself is never stored, only the proof. (What's on the blockchain is unreadable as content, it's just a fingerprint so no one can reconstruct your photo or text from it.)
Later, anyone can drop that same file into the verifier and instantly see if it's in the registry, when it was created, and whether any AI traces were detected. Even if someone took your content and slightly changed it, we look up the ID internally and match it with content similar.
The privacy part was important to me. Your content is transformed into a fingerprint, and that + any biometrics or metadata is all that is saved. The fingerprint can't be reverse-engineered. Only someone with the original file can prove a exact match.
I built the entire frontend in Lovable, and its been really good for fast iterations!
If you wanna try it out please check out the lovable link https://origin-writer-bloom.lovable.app
PS: It for sure still have bugs so please let me know!
u/Famous-Jackfruit-898 — 2 months ago