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I started https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io as a side project, and then ran it fulltime as a one-person SaaS app for over a year. We're now a team of 8, profi
by coderholic 7y ago
I started https://ipinfo.io https://ipinfo.io as a side project, and then ran it fulltime as a one-person SaaS app for over a year. We're now a team of 8, profitable, and growing quickly. We're still 100% bootstrapped, and I have zero plans to raise any outside funding.
We started with a simple IP geolocation API, which now handles over 20 billion API requests per month. We've added new data to that service, such as IP type classification (hosting, isp, or business, and soon education too), IP to company, and carrier detection. And we've also launched some other products, like hosted domain API (all domains hosted on an IP, sometimes called reverse IP), IP ranges belonging to an organization, and an ASN API. We've got a lot in the pipeline too, including some domain related offerings (see https://host.io https://host.io for an early preview).
So it's definitely possible :) What sort of SaaS product are you thinking of launching? Would be happy to chat! Shoot me an email at ben@ipinfo.io
- Topgamer7 7y agoIp info is quite convenient with curl :)
- brianwillis 7y agoYou got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying. I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.
- maxerickson 7y agoCity level result here. Do you happen to live close to a center point of something?
- brianwillis 7y agoYes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.
- coderholic 7y agoYeah, the geolocation is city/zip level accuracy. The coordinates are the centroid of the city or zip, not a specific point.
- selterdurst 7y agoRead an article where people were coming to people's houses demanding their phone etc. because the location for that "region" was mapped to their backyard.
- mxd3 7y agoIt got me within one city block of my location. I’m in NYC.
- GordonS 7y agoIt puts me hundreds of miles out, in the wrong country. I find these IP lookup tools vary greatly - some will match certain IP blocks better than others.
- coderholic 7y agoYeah, accuracy definitely varies by ISP, and region. If you'd be willing to share your IP or ISP with me (ben@ipinfo.io) I'd love to look into it and see what we might have been able to do / be able to do in the future to get a more precise location for you.
- GordonS 7y agoNo offense, but I'd rather it wasn't too accurate ;)
- 55555 7y agoI love your service. I've been using it for years! I use the responses at /geo and /json. The 'org' data is appreciated.
- Procrastes 7y agoReally appreciated your service at my last company, and I recognize some of how hard what you do really is. In my case you're over 400 miles off. That's not a complaint; I'm amazed at how much you manage to get right.
- romanovcode 7y agoCan you explain if you have any difference than MaxMind? Seems you just use their database and proxy the result?