AndrewCopeland

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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
I am glad you find it useful. Please let me know if you have any questions. If you like it, I would greatly appreciate an upvote, it really helps with visibility.
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Show HN: EmailDetective – A Email Validation API(emaildetective.io)
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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
Its a simple cli in go It uses docker There is no k8s Handles certs Zero down time I would love for it to support docker-compose as some of my side projects needs a library in python but I like having my service be in go, so I will wrap
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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
I like the website. Did you start with a specific template?
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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
Website looks nice! Looks like we are competitors, I run https://ipdetective.io . It would love to connect, I will send an email to your support so we can exchange numbers.
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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
I've seen AI generated content about dog breeds, the content was absolutely horrible to watch and listen too. In the near future we will have YouTube videos that pride themselves on being organically made, no GMOs and built by humans.
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by AndrewCopeland 2y ago
That's what I do, I think I provide a great product/service but also still want to get the word out. A marketing agency who will sell a bag of shit as long as they get paid is definitely a net negative. Overall reddit has been goi
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by AndrewCopeland 3y ago
Nice, I like how simple it is! I provide a similar service but with more focus on bot/data center/VPN ip addresses. https://ipdetective.io
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by AndrewCopeland 3y ago
https://ipdetective.io
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by AndrewCopeland 3y ago
Shameless plug, if you do not want to spend the time aggregating all datacenter IP addresses you can use the IPDetective.io API to easily detect of an IP address comes from a datacenter, VPN, proxy or botnet.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I wrote a bash script to collect demographic information for everyone in the country using the us census. I also created a simple bash script to take notes following the zettelkasten method, you can check it out here: https://git
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Love the story! Breath of fresh air and a similar trajectory I would like to take for my own startup. The slow burn is real and making meaningful connections to customers is important for consistent revenue in the long term.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I have added the feature for a user to add known addresses so they do not get flagged as bots. Take a look at the API docs here: https://ipdetective.io/api Currently the known address is scoped to the user/client who i
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I ended up allowing a mechanism to exclude ip addresses for a specific user. The step after this is too have certain IPs excluded from the entire IPDetective list and not just for a specific user.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
All of the IP are stored in memory. This takes up about 3.5 GB. I have a text file that is 445K lines that contains all of the specific IP addresses and the IP prefixes (CIDR) that make up that 250 million ips. Uncompressed I do not know. A
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Is you VPN installed in some type of datacenter or hosting service? If so thats how I am detecting it. Yes I am blocking all IPs from specific ASNs.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Is it your home dedicated ip?
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
It seems more affordable, I do not know if its more accurate.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I would like to expand. See what users need and pivot as needed. A cheap version of CF's proxy seems like an interesting start. I do not know if I have the expertise though.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I feel you. Maybe we could work something out.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Ahhh makes sense. I could definitely offer that it's pretty large being 250 million IP addresses. I wonder what the best format would be? Csv? SQLite?
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Sounds good, this has been a common request and is definitely on the road map. I am trying to create a very fast service and data querying slows it down. With that being said I am thinking about adding a query parameter like `?info=true` th
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I get the idea, seems like a hot topic in the comments and a solution is definitely possible. The "placing protocols to avoid abuse" seems like the most difficult part :).
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Sounds like a great idea and an even better feature. Would that exception only work for you? Or would it also work for other users of IPDetective?
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I would agree with everything you are saying. I did not start this service for the sake of stopping actual people from using certain websites. I started this service to mitigate/detect bot abuse of consumer applications. I think it rea
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
IPDetective collects data data from bot nets, datacenters, tor nodes, proxies and vpns. Is that what you are looking for? Also IPDetective can be used just as a detection solution rather than a prevention solution. Sometimes I use it agains
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
Thank you very much for your input. I will look into having the privacy be more verbose around the system logs and for how long I store them. > I keep look for something I can just add lists to my server and check against that, but not g
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
How would you plan on storing the feed of IP addresses? I currently reach out to 3rd party and then aggregate all of the IP addresses once a day.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
That is a real good idea, I really like it.
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by AndrewCopeland 4y ago
I do not, but it seems like a great feature request. I will look into adding something like this.

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