Beeping

I built Beeping because I got genuinely annoyed at 3 AM trying to debug why traffic was coming from weird IPs, and every "simple IP lookup" service took longer to load their tracking scripts than to actually return my data.
The original idea was embarrassingly basic: make a service that returns your IP address in under 10 milliseconds. That's it. No forms, no "create account to see more", just curl and done. I was mostly scratching my own itch since I run a lot of automation scripts and every existing service either blocked me as suspicious or made me wait 150ms for what should be a trivial lookup.
Then I deployed it, used it for a few months in my own projects, and people started asking "hey, can this do geolocation too?" So I added that. Then DNS propagation checks because I was tired of waiting 5 minutes on third-party tools that may or may not be showing cached results. Then ASN lookups because why not, the data's already there.
What surprised me wasn't the technical side (since Rust makes the speed part almost boring) but realizing how much the industry has normalized slow, bloated services that treat developers like potential threats. Most IP APIs are designed around the assumption that you're probably going to abuse them, so they add friction everywhere. I went the opposite direction: assume good faith, optimize for the 99% of legitimate use cases, deal with abuse if it actually becomes a problem.
Currently it handles a few thousand requests daily on infrastructure that costs me less than a decent lunch. It's completely free because I haven't figured out the business model yet without making it worse. I'm working on VPN detection and thinking about a freemium tier around $9/month, but honestly I'm trying to avoid the trap of "let's add paywalls until the free tier becomes useless."
The DNS propagation tool checks 20+ servers worldwide and shows you a map because apparently I can't just build a simple API without adding features I find interesting. The alternative was staring at terminal output and manually checking if my DNS changes propagated to Asia, which is about as fun as it sounds.
Try it: curl beeping.app
Genuinely curious what would make this actually useful for your projects, or if the world really doesn't need another IP service and I should just accept that.

Thats really awesome. I would love the opportunity to personally explore it.

Congrats on the launch!