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Soft Blackout
Mask text on any page, or turn articles into blackout poetry
Soft Blackout masks text on any web page three ways, right from Chrome's toolbar. Manual masks any text you select in one click. Poetry turns an article into a blackout poem: you pick the words to keep and it hides the rest. Pattern Mask finds emails, URLs and phone numbers and masks them only when you choose Apply. Choose Solid or Marker style in five colours, with Undo and Redo across every mode. Masks are only visual and disappear on reload.
Hey everyone 👋
Blackout poetry has always fascinated me: you take a page of text, cover almost everything, and the few words left behind say something new. One day I wondered what that would feel like on the web, on any article I was reading. That's how Soft Blackout started.
While building it, I kept reaching for the same idea for everyday things: hiding an email before a screenshot, covering a name before sharing my screen, or just blocking out a spoiler. So it grew into three modes: Poetry for making blackout poems, Manual for masking anything you select, and Pattern Mask for finding emails, URLs and phone numbers in one scan.
I'm really curious how you'll use it, for privacy, for poetry or for something I haven't thought of. Drop a blackout poem in the comments if you make one, I'd love to see them!
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About Soft Blackout on Product Hunt
“Mask text on any page, or turn articles into blackout poetry”
Soft Blackout was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #105 on the daily leaderboard. Soft Blackout masks text on any web page three ways, right from Chrome's toolbar. Manual masks any text you select in one click. Poetry turns an article into a blackout poem: you pick the words to keep and it hides the rest. Pattern Mask finds emails, URLs and phone numbers and masks them only when you choose Apply. Choose Solid or Marker style in five colours, with Undo and Redo across every mode. Masks are only visual and disappear on reload.
Soft Blackout was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.9k followers), Writing (59.4k followers), Privacy (11.5k followers) and GitHub (41.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 74.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Soft Blackout was hunted by heykaan. 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.
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