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Show HN: Securly - Keep your kids safe on your home network

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Show HN: Securly - Keep your kids safe on your home network

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Post by bmadhu »

http://www.securly.com

To keep kids safe online, we felt it wasn’t enough anymore to rely simply on blocking websites (domain filtering). We also need to protect them on trusted social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia. We couldn’t find any solution that does this for the entire home network. We are two security hackers who have worked in the enterprise firewall space for several years and felt this was an important problem to solve.

The video on our front page gives you a pretty good idea of what we do. You can also use us as a free premium DNS server by pointing your DNS to the IPs here:

http://www.securly.com/setup

We would love some honest feedback on what we have built so far.

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#3

Post by cliffcrosland »

My family uses the SafeEyes filter on each machine, but I think this is a much more interesting approach as it helps tackle filtering for kids' smartphones as well.

One small piece of feedback: Could you give a little bit more info on how to set up the two DNS servers? Perhaps an example or some links to walkthroughs for popular routers?

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cliffcrosland wrote: post #3

My family uses the SafeEyes filter on each machine, but I think this is a much more interesting approach as it helps tackle filtering for kids' smartphones as well. One small piece of feedback: Could you give a little bit more info on how to set up the two DNS servers? Perhaps an example or some links to walkthroughs for popular routers?

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Post by bmadhu »

cliffcrosland wrote: post #3

My family uses the SafeEyes filter on each machine, but I think this is a much more interesting approach as it helps tackle filtering for kids' smartphones as well. One small piece of feedback: Could you give a little bit more info on how to set up the two DNS servers? Perhaps an example or some links to walkthroughs for popular routers?

Thanks Cliff. Yes, SafeEyes (we are ex McAfee as well) and similar software based solutions are painful to manage across devices. We are already working towards addressing the DNS setting issue by not only providing instructions on our site but also coming up with an application that automatically configures the wireless routers. We believe this will make it easier than ever for people to use Securly.

Re: Show HN: Securly - Keep your kids safe on your home network

#10

Post by bmadhu »

JamesBell wrote: post #9
pdenya wrote: post #2

That video is OK. I'd rather see a plain text description of what it is exactly that you're blocking or not blocking.

2nd that. Needs FAQ.

Thanks for the feedback. We are in the process of revamping our website to include FAQ -- but we felt like we could get away with launching on HN without it given the high density of early adopters here.
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