How do you handle IP bans? Sharing our journey building GonzoProxy (and 3GB free to test/discuss) 🚀
Hi Product Hunt! đź‘‹
I want to open up a discussion about one of the most frustrating bottlenecks for startups, developers, and digital marketers: IP bans and proxy management.
Whether you are building web scrapers, automating market research, managing multi-account marketing campaigns, or running SEO audits, you've likely hit the "ban wall". Traditional data center proxies get flagged instantly, and legacy residential providers lock you into expensive monthly subscriptions where unused bandwidth simply vanishes at the end of the billing period.
We wanted to change that. We founded GonzoProxy (officially registered as GonzoProxy LTD in the UK) to serve as a robust, developer-friendly "tech-savvy teammate".
Here are a few core challenges we focused on solving, and we'd love to get your thoughts on them:
1. The Wasted Budget Problem (Non-Expiring Traffic)
Most providers force you into monthly subscriptions. If you buy 50GB and only use 10GB, you lose 40GB. We decided that your purchased traffic should NEVER expire. You buy it once, use it whenever you want, and your unused balance rolls over with absolutely no pressure or losses.
Question for the community: Do you prefer flexible pay-as-you-go data, or do you actually use up your monthly quotas?
2. Organic Sourcing (P2P Network)
Platform anti-fraud systems are smarter than ever. To bypass blocks on sensitive sites like Google, Facebook, or TikTok, you need organic residential IPs. We built a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of over 20 million real devices. Our pool comes from real home broadband users who voluntarily and legally share a portion of their internet connection for rewards. This provides a natural “digital footprint” and up to 90% protection from bans.
3. Frictionless Setup (Zero KYC)
For fast-scaling startups and developers, identity checks can be a massive operational hurdle. We completely skipped KYC requirements for standard use cases. You can register via your Google account and start creating proxies in under 30 seconds.
Question for the community: How important is zero-KYC and instant onboarding for your scraping or automation pipelines?
4. Advanced Targeting at No Extra Cost
We believe developers shouldn't be nickeled-and-dimed. With GonzoProxy, you can target specific countries, regions, cities, or operators/carriers across 190+ countries manually or automatically—entirely for free.
Let's Discuss! đź’¬
We designed our stack to support SOCKS5 and HTTP(S) protocols, REST APIs, and modern standards like QUIC for lower latency. Our infrastructure is fully compliant with ISO/IEC 27001:2017 and GDPR/CCPA standards.
To help you test our pool and share your honest feedback, feel free to use promo code GONZO3GB to get 3GB of free traffic completely on us.
We'd love to know:
What are your biggest pain points when web scraping or managing social media campaigns at scale?
What tools or anti-detect browsers do you integrate your proxies with? (We currently integrate out-of-the-box with tools like Undetectable, Octo Browser, Dolphin {anty}, and AdsPower).
Looking forward to your feedback, suggestions, and feature requests!
#gonzoproxy
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