SpecificProxy
Proxy Using a Specific IP
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Threw together this very specific proxy that allows the downstream to define which IP will be used for the proxied request, and has built-in rate limiting mechanism to coordinate upstream rate limiting across clients.This is particularly useful when you have a proxy node with many IPs, and you either want to use a specific one, or rotate through them. It also helps prevent upstream rate limiting due to disjoint clients being unable to coordinate on rate limits.Opus was largely able to one-shot each feature from my specs, which was pretty cool (shows how effective a spec is).
HN · launched Jan 11, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 50%) · 1 view
Niche: networking and tunneling utilities · 190 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A custom forward proxy that binds outbound sockets to specific network interface IPs with simple token-bucket rate limiting is straightforward to implement in Go, Node.js, or Python.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Multiple proxy containers, iptables/routing rules
Concerns raised: NDP overhead with IPv6 address rotation at scale, Potential LLM-generated account activity
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 23 days after the earliest competitor.
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