Show HN: Identify company type by IP address

Re:Show HN: Identify company type by IP address by kevinjyc on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:42PM (#21319211)

Thanks a lot @somada141! Apologies for any confusion.

Let me clarify: the Free tier covers the first 250k API requests made in a single month. If the number of requests in a month goes beyond the threshold, the API will start returning Forbidden errors. The counter gets reset at the first of each month.

If your service gets more than 250k hits a month, then you will be a perfect match for our "Pro" tier.

This pricing structure, puts us on a league of our own, offering to the developers a huge package of free API calls every single month. Nobody else does it!

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Re:Show HN: Identify company type by IP address by somada141 on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:45PM (#21319596)

Hm a 403 when one runs out of credit can be misleading as one would expect that for an authorization error. You may want to consider the `402 Payment Required` status code instead which seems to be used by some big players [0].

Best of luck with your launch!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402

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Re:Show HN: Identify company type by IP address by kevinjyc on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:25PM (#21364973)

I confirm we updated the API to return a 402 error message when the user reached the limit of the her pricing tier. Thanks again for this suggestion.

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Re:Show HN: Identify company type by IP address by kevinjyc on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:13PM (#21319758)

This is a great suggestion! We will definitely consider it! Thanks for your support.

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