Sorta Secret

A simple web app that helps with blocking bots and web scrapers from reading semi-secret information like email addresses.

Sorta Secret is a simple web app that helps with blocking bots and web scrapers from reading semi-secret information. A great use case—and the reason this came into existence—is to allow real people to get someone's email address from a webpage without encouraging spammers. If you're familiar with it, this is similar to what Mailhide did before it was turned offline.

This app is written in Rust, and is an FP Complete demonstration of using Cloudflare Workers, Rust, and Web Assembly to create globally distributed, scalable, low maintenance, and robust applications using a "serverless" architecture.

This was a rewrite of an existing Kubernetes-hosted Rust web application. This was mostly a proof of concept to explore Cloudflare Workers as a viable alternative. We're happy with what we've found, and enjoy the reduced maintenance burden around infrastructure plus global distribution.