Handles - Brand Handle Scanner & Protection Platform
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Handles: Find, Watch and Claim Every Version of Your Brand's Handle
A SaaS platform for brands to protect their names on social media. It scans every variant of a brand's handle across platforms, shows which are free or taken in real time, and alerts the brand the moment a taken handle frees up.
The client
Handles was built for Socialbroker as a self-serve tool that helps brands stop handle infringements before they happen.
The problem
A brand's name isn't one handle. Variants with prefixes and suffixes, like @brand_nl, can be registered by anyone on any platform. Checking them by hand, one platform at a time, doesn't scale, and by the time a brand notices, the handle is already gone.
What I built
One platform that takes a brand from "what's out there?" to "it's ours", in three steps: Scan, Monitor and Register.
Scan any wordmark
Enter a brand name, or paste a list, and Handles generates its prefix and suffix variants and checks each one across social platforms.
Every variant, with its live status
Results come back as one table: the handle, the check type, its status (available or not available) and the platform. Brands can filter by status and platform and search the list. One scan for adidas returned 132 handle variants.
Watch the handles that are taken
Handles that are already taken go onto a watchlist. The platform keeps checking them and notifies the brand as soon as one becomes available.
Claim them all in one go
Once a brand knows what's free, it can register every available handle together instead of signing up platform by platform.
Under the hood
A Python crawler runs the real-time availability checks for each variant on each platform. The Next.js app handles scanning, results, filtering and the watchlist, with PostgreSQL storing scans, statuses and monitored handles.
Stack
Next.js · Python · PostgreSQL · real-time web crawler
My role
Full-stack engineer on the platform: built the Next.js app, the Python crawler behind the real-time handle checks, and the PostgreSQL data layer.
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Built a SaaS with a real-time crawler that checks 100+ handle variants across platforms and alerts brands the moment a taken handle frees up.
