I tracked 55k free proxies for a week
1.6% were alive
Details
- External ID
- 49507513
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I tracked 55k free proxies for a week
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- proxy monitoring and validation service
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a data-gathering script that scrapes public proxy lists, issues concurrent health check HTTP requests to verify availability and latency, and records statistics in a simple database or static dashboard.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI slop
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- I checked 1M free proxies · hn · 2026-09-26 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Proxmint · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- proxy-scraper · github · 2026-09-24 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I got 50% of my traffic from ChatGPT instead of Google · hn · 2025-12-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network · hn · 2026-09-15 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Roundproxies · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- auctionanything · github · 2026-09-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments · hn · 2026-06-25 · 822 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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