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coderholic

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About coderholic

British software engineer living in Seattle, previously 5 years in the SF Bay Area.

Founder at https://ipinfo.io. Formerly Calm.com, Facebook, Lightbox and Mendeley. Father of 3.

You can get in touch via ben.m.dowling@gmail.com or follow me at https://twitter.com/coderholic

    $ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
    {
      "ip": "8.8.8.8",
      "hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.3860,-122.0840",
      "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
      "postal": "94035",
      "phone": "650"
    }

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48049780

    See my profile

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    Comment #47979897

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data, including geolocation, VPN and re…

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    Comment #46471318

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data, including geolocation, VPN and re…

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    Comment #45482983

    Thank you, appreciate it! I've reached out to Jason - hopefully we're able to keep the site alive!

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    Comment #44163323

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion …

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    Comment #43873766

    Yeah I hear you - improvements coming here soon!

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    Comment #43873762

    Oops! Thanks for flagging. Fixed now.

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    Comment #43865172

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion …

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    Comment #43658757

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion …

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    Comment #43246918

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion …

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    Comment #42922646

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion …

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    Comment #42302027

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a…

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    Comment #41746758

    We also tag all our traffic with greynoise: https://viz.greynoise.io/query/actor:%22IPinfo.io%22

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    Comment #39352552

    You're not missing anything - those are all real problems! We've done a lot of work to overcome many of them, and others are active areas of research and development for us. We do …

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    Comment #38494624

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests…

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    Comment #36171372

    Probably not in the next few months, but certainly later this year.

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    Comment #36166005

    You do amazing work and we're lucky to have you on the team!

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    Comment #36161200

    I’m not sure why you think I’m lying, or why it’s so unbelievable that we’ve hired at least 10 engineers from HN? It’s true, and fairly easy to verify too.

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    Comment #36160844

    HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wan…

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    Comment #35431986

    Ah, then I'm sorry - that's my bad. If you'd gone to the trouble of answering questions over email then I should totally have got back you and not ghosted you. I do try to do that …

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    Comment #35431191

    Sorry for your bad experience! We review every application, but we don't reply to every one. For candidates that we think could be a fit for the role we'll usually send over some q…

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    Comment #35429268

    IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests…

  24. story
    Show HN: Free IP to Country and ASN Downloads from Ipinfo.io

    Free IP to Country and ASN Data downloads: - MMDB, CSV and JSON format - Full accuracy (not degraded quality compared to our paid downloads) - IPv4 and IPv6 data - A single file th…

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    Comment #33178888

    I can share some thoughts from a hiring perspective. For context I'm the founder & CEO at https://ipinfo.io - we're a fully remote team of around 30 people, and we've hired at leas…