I tracked 55k free proxies for a week
1.6% were alive
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HN · launched Aug 31, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: network proxy management tools · 112 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 112 launches in network proxy management tools →
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 : 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 107 (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 0.46
- Rich Proxies · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Proxyca · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- 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
- RoamProxy · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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