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WonderProxy
Company blog · wonderproxy.com/blog · on HN as preinheimerwebdata
WonderProxy is the company blog at wonderproxy.com, writing about web and data. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “WonderProxy provides HTTP proxies around the world”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links WonderProxy as a service for testing geo-based features. It does not discuss any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Combine a global network with flexible testing tools to see what your website looks like to customers around the world
Most-linked posts?
- WonderProxy provides HTTP proxies around the world3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-08-12
- A day in the life of the Internet (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-20
- WonderVPN: What we log and why (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Global Ping Statistics - https://wondernetwork.com/pings We have ~240 servers world wide, we get them all to ping each other every hour, and record the results. We've been generating them for years, they're a pain to store, we've made $0 with it. But I really like the data we're getting. We recently moved a lot of the legacy data into S3 to save our own backup & restore process ( https://wonderproxy.com/blog/moving-…
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on “Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?”Submitted Amazon versus Google: Translate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGlobal Ping Data - https://wondernetwork.com/pings We've got servers in 200+ cities around the world, and ask them to ping each other every hour. Currently it takes our servers in Tokyo and London about 226ms to ping each other. We've got some downloadable datasets here if you want to play with them: https://wonderproxy.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-intern...
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on “Computer Latency: 1977-2017”Submitted Only 7% of the top 10,000 sites support Accept-Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI launched WonderProxy ( https://wonderproxy.com ) while employed. I actually launched it to solve a problem a co-worker was having. He was a friend, and kept having to stay late to try and test aspects of our website using various free web proxies. I bought a few VPS in different countries, gave him the password, and it was an instant hit. They were my first customer, and are still a customer several years later. I…
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on “Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed?”Submitted Best Practices for Identifying or Requesting User Locations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe offer VPN as a side thing to help our customers who are testing their websites from around the world. At the behest of some friends I added VPN as its own plan. A choice you need to make really early on when you're offering a VPN is how much data you want to log. Eventually someone will do something on your service that pisses someone else off. That could be torrenting, spam, defrauding the elderly, etc. Ideally…
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on “Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?”Submitted A day in the life of the Internet (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you'd rather not have to mess around with stuff, and have $5 to spare, we can help: https://wonderproxy.com/signup/vpn It was a huge pain in the neck to get native support on Mac & various windows flavours. But our normal clients needed a good solution for testing flash & silverlight apps.
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on “Secure your browsing using a home VPN”Submitted WonderVPN: What we log and why (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm a programmer, and I also own WonderProxy ( https://wonderproxy.com/ ) and Yes. I had someone from a rather large company email me, all super interested, get them started on a trial then they'll pay like tomorrow. They just need to get started ASAP!!!!!!ones!!!! That turned into needing to talk to some business guy, who absolutely needed to talk to me on the phone, so he could ask me for our address and a phone n…
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on “The Business Guy vs. the Programmer”Submitted Moving 1B Rows from MySQL to S3 and Athena as a story · 1 points
HN discussionProbably around 8 months - 1 year for us ( https://wonderproxy.com ). My co-founder and I were both employed full time elsewhere so we used revenue to expand constantly, becoming profitable wasn't on our short to-do list.
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on “Ask HN: How much time did you invest in your startup until ramen profitable?”Submitted Tracing Routes through the Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHosting. I'm a co-founder at https://wonderproxy.com , so our product is having servers all over. It starts to add up after a while. Jumping down an order of magnitude we've got: software, bank fees/processing fees, insurance, taxes. We were really happy when our salaries passed our hosting bills and stayed there.
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on “Ask HN: What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?”Submitted WonderProxy provides HTTP proxies around the world as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you need to actually navigate your website from different locations we can give you a hand: https://wonderproxy.com/ we have proxy servers in >200 locations around the world. Our more basic screenshot tool is up at http://shotsherpa.com
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on “Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations”I used to work for eDonkey as their support minion, a file sharing program of yesteryear. We had forums, and a user there was far more helpful to all the newbs than I was. We started chatting from time to time, then more often, he even came up to meet me while I was down in NYC for the summer. We kept in touch, he helped me manage a dedicated server I'd bought somewhere. I felt bad because he was managing it and I w…
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on “Ask HN: How did you meet your co-founder(s)?”Having a VPN service like this is useful for testing Geo-based features. I've used / can recommend https://wonderproxy.com/
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on “VPN.sh - £1/year VPN in 21 worldwide locations”I'm a co-founder at WonderProxy https://wonderproxy.com/ I launched it to help a friend who was in QA. Our own site doesn't do GeoIP stuff, so I don't need it. I enjoy working on it, have quite enjoyed the site re-write ( https://admin.wonderproxy.com/ ) but my day to day life doesn't need to route traffic through Brazil.
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on “Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?”My server in Cairo is still online and functioning: https://wonderproxy.com/servers/
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on “Egypt announces that it will cut off Internet in one hour”
