How my side project got banned from the internet
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A developer shares their experience after their side project (Engramma, a JSON/design tokens editor) was falsely flagged as a phishing site by Google Safe Browsing and 10 other security vendors. The post walks through the process of contacting each vendor to clear the false positive, ranking them by response time and quality. The root cause turned out to be a 302 redirect from the bare domain to a subdomain on a newly registered domain — a pattern commonly used by malicious actors. The fix was building a simple landing page to eliminate the redirect. Key takeaways: check VirusTotal before launching on a new domain, set up Google Search Console immediately, and avoid bare-domain redirects.
