Show HN: XHR anti bot bypass (xhr.dev)

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Post by skilbjo » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 1:58 PM UTC

I've launched the new product, xhr.dev (https://xhr.dev/)

The initial product is a 1 line code integration that does bot detection avoidance via a forward proxy.

Ideal customer is someone who gets blocked by anti-bot defences like cloudflare or other captcha challenges. Usually these customers have web scraping use cases.

You can view our historical performance on our status page (https://status.xhr.dev).

ty v much, john

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Re: Show HN: XHR anti bot bypass (xhr.dev)

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Post by zoezoezoezoe » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

Hey John, I really appreciate this type of work, but $500/mo or $60k a year is a lot in my opinion. You guys are probably targeting a much larger user than I would be, and for enterprise users (ie tens or hundreads of thousands of requests) this pricing might make sense, but for a smaller user (ie hundreads to a few thousand requests) the pricing is a bit much. I really like someone like Bright Data's pricing scheme, and maybe something like that could be worth considering.

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Post by aranibatta » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 3:52 PM UTC

zoezoezoezoe wrote: post #2

Hey John, I really appreciate this type of work, but $500/mo or $60k a year is a lot in my opinion. You guys are probably targeting a much larger user than I would be, and for enterprise users (ie tens or hundreads of thousands of requests) this pricing might make sense, but for a smaller user (ie hundreads to a few thousand requests) the pricing is a bit much. I really like someone like Bright Data's pricing scheme,…

I could see another tier that comes with 1,0000-10,000 included requests included at 1/10 of the cost being a good idea. Might be really hard for a small startup to support those customers out the gate though!