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Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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Post by jonathan-kosgei »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #4

"Free IP Geolocation API" vs. "Choose Your Pricing Plan" What Geo IP service would people suggest instead?

I think the freemium model is pretty common in Saas. And I think a free tier of 45 000 requests a month, 1500 per day is pretty generous. Anything running as a hobby app/side project would run pretty well within that tier. Most users making more than 1500 requests a day have no issue paying.

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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Post by no_protocol »

I wonder if you can change the pricing plans and language around them a little. What happens if I'm going along happily on the 2500/day plan and suddenly I get hit with a traffic spike and need 20,000/day for 3 days until things calm down? If you're going to use pricing buckets like this it probably needs to also come with an automated way to bump the plan if needed.

Someone else in the thread suggested Maxmind as an alternative. Their prices seem to be several times higher than yours. Can you double your prices? It seems really cheap. Too cheap?

Also, the location identified for me was off by 60 miles.

On your Documentation page you've used 8.8.8.8 as an example IP address. And 1.1.1.1, and 2.2.2.2... I'd rather see you use the IPv4 address blocks reserved for documentation by RFC 5737 [0]. That's what they're for! Unfortunately, they probably don't have any actual data associated with them so the examples would need to be fabricated...hmm.

And it looks like actually using one of those results in some output that does not conform to the format on your documentation page, so you'd best also add documentation about error handling.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737

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