coderholic on Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

Comment on Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

I launched http://ipinfo.io back in 2013 and when it hit 50M API requests a day early this year I decided to launch the paid plans, and it's been profitable ever since. It's now hosted across 2 providers in 3 different cities, and handles almost 100M requests per day with a p99 of less than 1s and p50 of less than 100ms. Expect more services and features later this year!

stevekemp 12y

That traffic is pretty impressive, I've seen your site before and even though I don't have an obvious need for it I've had it bookmarked for a while.

Congratulations :)

coderholic 12y

Thanks!

mtufekyapan 12y

Your product is impressive but I think you can do with this product much more valuable things.

For example, I want to specialize my landing page depends on visitors location. For example I want to change if user comes from US H1 and H2 message. Can you build something makes this possible?

coderholic 12y

You can absolutely customize your LP depending on the user's location by using http://ipinfo.io, eg:

  $.get("http://ipinfo.io", function (response) {
      if(response.country == "US") display_us_message();
      else if(response.country == "TR") display_turkey_message();
      else display_generic_message();
  }, "jsonp");

I'll send you a mail to see if you're proposing something else.

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