One integration to build the perfect fraud stack. Dodgeball hooks into signup, sign-in, payments, etc. tracks your users, runs drag & drop automated workflows (logic, smart friction & 3rd-party fraud tools), and returns a response (approve, deny, or review).
Hi there, my name is Adam, and Iβm the CEO of Dodgeball. In 2017, I joined a budding property tech startup as VP of Eng. We were running a full-service short-term rental company that digitized the entire experience from discovery to check-in to concierge to check-out. We grew, but quickly discovered the ugly side of growth - fraud.
We saw that the Ubers and Googles of the world had resources to address fraud in intelligent and innovative ways, but most companies were left under-protected. Identifying the right security tools, integrating these products into various parts of your application, and adapting to constantly evolving fraud proved to be a significant challenge. Every solution created a new gap between solutions, every new feature added attack surface area, and every fraud-related eng ticket delayed product timelines.
I thought there had to be a better way. Luckily, my co-founders Patrick and Andrew had experienced similar challenges with fraud and had built systems to address it. We decided to come together and build Dodgeball β fraud stack as a service β so that no company had to deal with the pain of solving for fraud again.
Simply put, Dodgeball is the last integration youβll need to worry about for fraud. The Dodgeball integration hooks into all of your product's key moments of risk (signup, sign-in, payments, etc), tracks your users, runs drag & drop automated workflows (logic, smart friction & 3rd-party integrations), and returns a response (approve, deny, review). This enables logic changes as fast as fraudsters evolve, new fraud integrations with a flip of a switch, and intelligent user experience design that meets your users at their level of risk.
Like Segment for fraud prevention, try Dodgeball - fraud stack as a service. Free for developers and young startups.
@adamhiatt Congratulations on launching Dodgeball, the ultimate fraud-stack service. With its easy integration and automated workflows, Dodgeball takes care of all fraud detection needs. Good Luck !
@adamhiatt Congratulations on the launch of Dodgeball! π Cool project. I noticed that Dodgeball is free for developers and young startups. Is there a time limit for the Free plan? Thx
@leo_chen8 The free tier has no time limit! The platform fee for the growth tier is $0 for a year for startups.
Drop me a line at adam@dodgeballhq.com and I can hook you up!
What's new, developers? Well done on getting your project on the Product Hunt! π
I'm going to sample this product.
What motivated you to create it??
@michael_johnson24 We were motivated to create Dodgeball to shut the fraud up. We all come from technical backgrounds and we were sick of solving the same fraud issues again and again.
In my previous role, I was tasked with solving fraud for a series A fintech company. As a startup, they didn't focus on fraud issues until they started seeing them - after-all why spend the time and resources solving a problem you don't yet have? The issue is that fraud goes from 0 to 60 very quickly when you start getting noticed! That means you have to research and find solutions to those specific types of fraud, negotiate pricing on those solutions (most don't have open pricing, many don't have open registration), and then you have to integrate and tune those solutions. The whole process takes a long time (we're talking months at least) and you are left playing whack-a-mole as you iterate to a more secure system.
Dodgeball is the solution to that problem as it allows you to quickly (I've timed myself at 10 minutes) do a single integration that opens up all the tools you need to resolve fraud. With it you can create checkpoints to protect any feature and iterate-in additional logic and tools as needed without having to touch code.
@paolo_degiglio I'm glad you love the name. Now imagine Paul the Octopus playing a game of Dodgeball to rid the world of fraud :)
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congratulations on the launch π! looks amazing, that's so great to have such critical functionality as drag'n'drop service, huge opportunities for startups, thanks!
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@alexey_yar Thank you for the kind words! Helping startups is a big part of our mission.
Really appreciate your origin story and why you built Dodgeball. Fraud early on can kill a company, so itβs great that your making it more accessible!
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@cjries 100% Thanks for the note Christopher. It's a catch 22 when you don't have the resources to fight fraud, but it can kill your company. Hopefully, our free offering alleviates some of that pain.
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