Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
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HN · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 75 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Detecting whether an IP address belongs to a residential proxy network requires global internet scanning, traffic honeypots, and proprietary telemetry that only dedicated threat intelligence firms possess.
What it would actually take: The frontend is a trivial SvelteKit app, but the underlying service relies on Spur Intelligence's proprietary IP dataset. Building that dataset requires massive worldwide network infrastructure: deploying honeyclients/honeypots to intercept botnet/proxy traffic, active scanning of residential ASN endpoints, reverse engineering proxy SDKs embedded in consumer apps, and real-time processing of petabytes of behavioral network traffic.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Synthient, spur.us, iknowwhatyoudownload.com
Concerns raised: Database inaccuracy / false positives, Flagging residential IPs may be meaningless or counterproductive, Fails to account for dynamic/mobile network IP sharing
Feature requests: IPv6 support / scanning /56 range, Links to guides for remediation, API to query other IPs beyond one's own, Paid plan with methodology under NDA
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 386 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 387 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
- IP Clean Check · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- where-am-i-follow-proxy-ip · github · 2026-10-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- IPLogs · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- proxy-registry · github · 2026-10-03 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- proxy-tunnel · github · 2026-11-01 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tunnelprobe · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Netlink · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- IP Raccoon: Instant IP Lookups · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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