Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket money with little time?

Re:Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket mo... by whitepoplar on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:03PM (#14472901)

I'm curious--that's a ton of requests. Any idea what your users are using the data for, and in what context?

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Re:Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket mo... by khedoros1 on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:55PM (#14473230)

As an example of a possible use: I know that my Asus router shows vendor info on its page that displays DHCP leases. It seems like it's mostly based on the MAC vendor ID. I haven't ever examined where it gets that information from.

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Re:Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket mo... by fencepost on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:51PM (#14473847)

From real world experience, "I see this device getting an address from DHCP but I have no idea what our where it is and there aren't any useful ports or it's off right now. Is the MAC from a manufacturer I recognize?"

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Re:Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket mo... by Jach on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:22PM (#14473413)

~5k requests per minute doesn't seem that much if it's just light processing and a map lookup. You can do a lot with a $10/m VPS.

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Re:Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket mo... by sjg007 on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:53PM (#14473220)

I'd use it to trace computers on my network.

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