Is 15.dev safe?

http://15.dev/

SafeStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Personal portfolio site for the creator of 15.ai with no commercial risk indicators

15.dev is the personal portfolio of a pseudonymous software engineer and AI researcher known as '15', who created the 15.ai speech synthesis project. The site lists projects, education credentials, and links to social media profiles without any commercial transactions, subscriptions, or monetization mechanisms.

The site appears safe for normal browsing as a personal portfolio with no evidence of malicious activity, commercial deception, or technical threats.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

15.dev is the personal portfolio of a pseudonymous software engineer and AI researcher known as '15', who created the 15.ai speech synthesis project. The site lists projects, education credentials, and links to social media profiles without any commercial transactions, subscriptions, or monetization mechanisms.

Site purpose and content

The site presents itself as a personal portfolio for the creator of 15.ai, a free non-commercial AI speech synthesis project that generated character voices from text.

Content includes the creator's MIT education in physics, mathematics, and computer science, along with their thesis on quantum information and pseudo-telepathy in nonlocal game theory.

Commercial activity assessment

The site links to Artist Alley (artistalley.org), described as a platform to sell merch, take commissions, host auctions and raffles with 0% fees, but this is presented as a separate project rather than a direct commercial funnel on 15.dev itself.

All observed links point to external social media profiles (Twitter, Discord, Twitch, GitHub, Faceit, Chess.com) and other personal projects without any affiliate relationships or commercial CTAs on the portfolio site.

Technical security assessment

the browser threat feed returned no threat warnings, and the site uses a valid TLS certificate for encrypted connections.

The hosting IP shows an abuse confidence score of 0/100 with no saved reports, and the domain is 475 days old with standard Cloudflare infrastructure.

Why the score is 92

The saved analysis does not include enough completed checks for a Safe rating. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 94

No detections

Saved result - stale

No detections across 94 engines

No antivirus engine in this saved scan raised an adverse result. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
94
All 94 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • benkow.cc - clean - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • Cluster25 - unrated - Clean
  • CMC Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - clean - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - clean - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • malwares.com URL checker - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • securolytics - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - clean - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • Spam404 - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • Trustwave - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - unrated - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
15.dev
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

I make playful, useful web things. Creator of 15.ai and founder of Artist Alley.

Context only

What the captured page showed

2 observations
  1. 01

    I make playful, useful web things.

  2. 02

    Creator of 15.ai and founder of Artist Alley.

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    15

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 94 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Free

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Site functions as a personal portfolio without transactions, subscriptions, or monetization mechanisms
  2. 02Site functions as a personal portfolio without transactions, subscriptions, or monetization mechanisms

Web research findings

Independent findings for 15.dev, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
2 positive
Positive reviews (2)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • Wikipediaopen

    "15.ai was a free non-commercial web application and research project that used artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudonymous artificial intelligence researcher known as 15"

  • 15.devopen

    "I studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with degrees in physics, mathematics and computer science; my thesis was on quantum information and pseudo-telepathy in nonlocal game theory"

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domain15.dev
  2. Redirects to15.dev
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com

Domain Timeline

  1. May 5, 2025
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.3 years old today.

  2. Aug 24, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed as safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers437276032231372
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Phone number listed (437276032231372).
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age1.3 years old
RegistrarPorkbun LLC
RegisteredMay 5, 2025
ExpiresMay 5, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresNov 13, 2026 (80d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSAstro v6.4.6

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://15.dev/
  • 2200https://15.dev/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 94 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
Freshnessstale fallback · Aug 24, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on 15.dev and not a lookalike like 1-5.dev or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is 15.dev legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on 15.dev, so it appears legitimate. All 94 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 1.3 years old, registered on May 5, 2025 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is 15.dev safe to use?
15.dev has a Safety Score of 92/100 (Safe). The saved analysis does not include enough completed checks for a Safe rating. at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like 15.dev still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from 15.dev), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from 15.dev is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has 15.dev been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 94 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report 15.dev as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is 15.dev on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — 15.dev is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the 15.dev domain?
15.dev is 1.3 years old, registered on May 5, 2025 through Porkbun LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does 15.dev have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — 15.dev presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 80 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is 15.dev hosted?
15.dev resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the 15.dev report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on August 24, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about 15.dev has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
92/100
Safe

Personal portfolio site for the creator of 15.ai with no commercial risk indicators

Saved capture15.devCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

15.dev is the personal portfolio of a pseudonymous software engineer and AI researcher known as '15', who created the 15.ai speech synthesis project. The site lists projects, education credentials, and links to social media profiles without any commercial transactions, subscriptions, or monetization mechanisms.

Recommended actionThe site appears safe for normal browsing as a personal portfolio with no evidence of malicious activity, commercial deception, or technical threats.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.