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Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA
The CAPTCHA your users will actually enjoy.
Playtcha is a privacy-first CAPTCHA. Instead of squinting at traffic lights so Google can fingerprint them, your users play a 5-second mini-game — eight in the rotation, randomized per load, mobile-tuned, server-verified with single-use JWTs. Zero tracking. Zero telemetry. GDPR-clean by design. Drop-in for reCAPTCHA: one script tag, one verify call. Free until 5,000 verifications/month. €4.99 after. No credit card needed.
Every CAPTCHA you've used does two things you didn't ask for. It profiles your visitors, and it ships a quarter-megabyte of JavaScript to do it. reCAPTCHA v3 scores users by fingerprinting the browser and shipping the signal to Google's ad graph. Turnstile does the same, owned by Cloudflare. hCaptcha does the same, sold to a different ad sidecar. The trade-off they all hide is who gets the data — not whether it happens, and not what it costs your page-load budget.
Playtcha doesn't hide it. We just don't do it.
The bot problem doesn't actually require surveillance. It requires asking the user to do something humans find easy and bots find annoying, then verifying. So that's all this is: a 5-second mini-game runs in the visitor's browser, the result is signed with a single-use JWT, your server verifies it. Zero behavioral data leaves the device. The customer-facing privacy policy line is one sentence.
What's in v1:
15.86 KB gzipped initial widget. Games lazy-load as ~4 KB chunks only when the user starts playing. For comparison: reCAPTCHA ships ~250 KB across multiple scripts; hCaptcha is similar; Turnstile is lighter but still 4-5× larger.
8 mini-games, random per load, mobile-tuned
2-minute, single-use, domain-bound JWT — no replay, no farming
5-minute integration: one <script> + one POST /v1/verify (same contract shape as reCAPTCHA, drop-in)
Free until 5,000 verifications/month, no credit card. €4.99 / €9.99 above that.
Hosted in Dublin (EU). GDPR-clean by design, not by paperwork.
What I'd love feedback on:
Game difficulty — too easy? too hard? Mobile feel especially.
/docs/quickstart — is the integration obvious in 5 minutes?
Live demo's on the homepage. Roast it.
About Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA on Product Hunt
“The CAPTCHA your users will actually enjoy. ”
Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #54 on the daily leaderboard. Playtcha is a privacy-first CAPTCHA. Instead of squinting at traffic lights so Google can fingerprint them, your users play a 5-second mini-game — eight in the rotation, randomized per load, mobile-tuned, server-verified with single-use JWTs. Zero tracking. Zero telemetry. GDPR-clean by design. Drop-in for reCAPTCHA: one script tag, one verify call. Free until 5,000 verifications/month. €4.99 after. No credit card needed.
On the analytics side, Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA competes within User Experience, SaaS and Games — topics that collectively have 505.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA?
Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA was hunted by Matias Nielsen. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Playtcha.com - The fun CAPTCHA including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Matias Nielsen
Hi Product Hunt — Matias here, maker of Playtcha.
Every CAPTCHA you've used does two things you didn't ask for. It profiles your visitors, and it ships a quarter-megabyte of JavaScript to do it. reCAPTCHA v3 scores users by fingerprinting the browser and shipping the signal to Google's ad graph. Turnstile does the same, owned by Cloudflare. hCaptcha does the same, sold to a different ad sidecar. The trade-off they all hide is who gets the data — not whether it happens, and not what it costs your page-load budget.
Playtcha doesn't hide it. We just don't do it.
The bot problem doesn't actually require surveillance. It requires asking the user to do something humans find easy and bots find annoying, then verifying. So that's all this is: a 5-second mini-game runs in the visitor's browser, the result is signed with a single-use JWT, your server verifies it. Zero behavioral data leaves the device. The customer-facing privacy policy line is one sentence.
What's in v1:
15.86 KB gzipped initial widget. Games lazy-load as ~4 KB chunks only when the user starts playing. For comparison: reCAPTCHA ships ~250 KB across multiple scripts; hCaptcha is similar; Turnstile is lighter but still 4-5× larger.
8 mini-games, random per load, mobile-tuned
2-minute, single-use, domain-bound JWT — no replay, no farming
5-minute integration: one <script> + one POST /v1/verify (same contract shape as reCAPTCHA, drop-in)
Free until 5,000 verifications/month, no credit card. €4.99 / €9.99 above that.
Hosted in Dublin (EU). GDPR-clean by design, not by paperwork.
What I'd love feedback on:
Game difficulty — too easy? too hard? Mobile feel especially.
/docs/quickstart — is the integration obvious in 5 minutes?
Live demo's on the homepage. Roast it.