[coderholic]

HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.

[el_benhameen]

It looks like ipinfo works in a fascinating problem space. I see that you had a few “Who is Hiring” posts earlier this year, but none in the May or June threads. Do you have a sense of whether you’ll be looking for more engineers in the near future?

[coderholic]

Probably not in the next few months, but certainly later this year.

[55555]

I use your site constantly by manually typing ipinfo.io/geo. Thanks for the free service.

[anyfactor]

Coderholic hired me from HN!

I wanted to be a DE, but I got interviewed for a success engineer post for one company. So, in a random thread, I described what my plans would be if I got hired in a success role.

So, Coderholic saw that comment, he sent me an email and asked me to apply to be their first DevRel. He was extremely patient with me and was kind enough to give me a shot.

That's how I made it IPinfo. I really love my job, and I feel privileged to be a part of the team.

[coderholic]

You do amazing work and we're lucky to have you on the team!

[justinlloyd]

I just integrated your service into a back-end system for a company building some VR stuff. I switched to your service because an issue in another IP lookup service was causing a bug in our server back-end. I think, over the years and various projects, I've had to integrate ipinfo.io at least a half-dozen times in a variety of projects, usually a server written in C or C++.

[no_time]

Thanks for the free database! I run several non-public services and It's and geo restricting it got rid all vuln scanning and exploit testing overnight.

I had 0 intentions of using an API to query every single incoming address for privacy reasons.

[reincoder]

The database is super nice. Try out ASN based restrictions as well, you can block suspicious data centers as well.

Let me know if you have suggestions or feedback about it. Also if you are found a neat trick please share it as well. Because it is a data product there are infinite ways to use it, so, documenting everything is very hard.

[MattSayar]

Oh hey Ben, it's fun to see someone I interacted with professionally out in the wild! I remember I guessed your email once and you responded immediately.

[dang]

Whoa - please don't cross into personal attack on HN! That's definitely not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I think your actual complaint is that coderholic's posts mostly (if not entirely) are about his company. It's true that good community members post about things that interest them generally, rather than using HN just for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity"). But it's also true that people sometimes end up posting like that because their startup is the main thing they have something to say about, and it's not some sort of nefarious intentional plan. Either way, the best way to get your point across is to be gentle and respectful. If you come out with guns blazing, not many people are going to react well to that!

[coderholic]

I’m not sure why you think I’m lying, or why it’s so unbelievable that we’ve hired at least 10 engineers from HN? It’s true, and fairly easy to verify too.