The pizza business is the one making the profit here, at doordash's expense.
It'd presumably be trivial for doordash to fix this, by checking the order amount against the cost. The article explains why they might not be doing that ("growth")
The problem is some customers received the pizza cold, and instead of blaming DoorDash, they blamed the restaurant. It's very misleading when DoorDash resell a product and pretend like the restaurant is actively participating in that process. I personally would not hesitate to ramp up the "self ordering", just to f* with DoorDash.
Another option is to not scrape at all, and use an existing data set. Common crawl is one good example, and http archive is another.
If you just want meta data from the homepage of all domains we scrape that every month at https://host.io and make the data available over our API: https://host.io/docs
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IPinfo is an IP address information API and data provider. Our industry leading IP geolocation API handles over 20 billion API requests a month. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing. We have a small fully distributed team spread across the globe, and we’re working on lots of exciting things!
We're looking for an exceptional and ambitious person to join our team and head up our content efforts - coming up with clever content ideas, writing blog posts, email campaigns, and creating copy for our website. You must be comfortable writing about technical topics, and have a proven track record working in a similar role before.
https://host.io - an API to get domain name metadata (scraped web content, backlinks, redirects, dns data, ranking information and more). See https://host.io/google.com for an example.
We've been building out the infrastructure for a while (scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains, progress the data etc), but have only recently launched the API (see htttps://host.io/docs).
We'll soon be releasing a Top 10M Ranked Domain list, like the Alexa top 1M, but 10M, and based on our own ranking signals, instead of traffic data like Alexa.
If you've got any interesting use cases for our data or any feedback I'd love to hear it! ben@ipinfo.io
> There are 68,258 domains hosted on 216.58.217.36 (AS15169 Google LLC) including google.com. Here's a sample: [...]
You wrote:
> scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains
what does "all domains" mean? All domains worldwide? Or some sub set?
As mentioned, I think your project sounds interesting — still I'm wondering, how did you verify there's an interest for what you're building? (I'd think/guess there is, just wondering if/how you verified this, or knew beforehand)
Currently the API is priced at $0.01 per call, with $10 of free credit when you signup.
We'll likely add monthly subscriptions in the future perhaps with a recurring monthly free tier, but we don't have them yet.
If you do run out of the free $10 credit and want more time to see if the API is going to be useful for you shoot me an email and I'll be happy to issue more credit.
We're doing the scraping ourselves. Just a single page per domain currently (so it's just links on the homepage), but we'll expand to a few pages per domain in the future.
We're also doing the ranking ourselves. We bootstrapped it by doing a regression against Alexa and other top 1m lists using a bunch of our own features (like number of backlinks, some content features, some IP address related features etc). We'll be sharing more details around this soon.
We've solved scaling and reliability (we handle 20 billion API requests a month), and we're now focusing almost all our efforts on our data quality, and new data products (like VPN detection).
We're bootstrapped, profitable, and we've got some big customers (like apple, and t-mobile), and despite being around for almost 7 years we've still barely scratched the surface on the opportunity ahead of us.
If you think you could help we're hiring - shoot me a mail - ben@ipinfo.io
Here are some reasons why someone might choose to use us:
- We're super developer friendly - you don't even need an access token to make up to 1,000 requests per day. We have a clean / simple JSON response, and official SDKs for most popular libraries
- We have a quick, reliable API. We obsess over latency and availability, and handle over 20 billion API requests a month. (here's a technical overview of how we reduced rDNS lookups by 50x: https://blog.ipinfo.io/reducing-ipinfo-io-api-latency-50x-by...)
- We obsess over data quality. We have a data team that's constantly striving to make our data and accuracy even better than it already is.
- We're innovating. We've launched and are working on exciting new data sets and products in the IP and domain data space (VPN detection, the host.io domain API, and more).
- We care about our customers. We have people working on customer support and customer success. If you run into an issue or need help, we'll be there to answer your questions.
Thanks! Do you have a work email I can contact you on? We currently lookup >1 million IPs per second and are in the middle of evaluating IP-geo solutions.
IPinfo is an IP address information API and data provider. Our industry leading IP geolocation API handles over 20 billion API requests a month. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing. We have a small fully distributed team spread across the globe, and we’re working on lots of exciting things!
We're looking for an exceptional and ambitious product-minded software engineer to lead our web development efforts. Our focus to date has been our data quality and API reliability, with less attention paid to our website. Now we have a great data team in place, and a solid API, we recognize there’s a big opportunity around our website.
We’re looking for someone with product ownership experience, including a/b testing and product optimization, and ideally pricing experiments and onboarding optimization too. You'll get to lead development of the website, suggest product improvements, rapidly iterate and shipping things quickly.
Experience with our tech stack a bonus (node.js, postgres, redis, google cloud). Remote work experience also a bonus. CS degree and at least 5 years experience required.
We're also looking to bring on part-time contractors to help with customer support, and content. 5 - 10 hours a week initially. Previous experience required, and a technical background a bonus.
I started IPinfo.io ~6 years (and launched it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7239333). We now serve 20 billion geolocation API requests a month, and roll our own geolocation data (we used to rely on the maxmind data, but have been busy working on improvements to that, and then our own complete data, along with other data sets like IP usage type, company and carrier etc).
So what does this have to do with OP's submission? You wrote a whole article about courtesy "guerrilla marketing" on Stack Overflow. At least comment on their work before your advertising.
Just wanted to say thank you for putting out such a great product. I recently used the freely available information on ipinfo to help with a security investigation. I will definitely be picking up a subscription!
Thanks Chelmzy! We have a few data "modules" launching soon with a security focus, including abuse contact details, VPN detection, and full IP whois details. If you'd like to get early access and trial any of them (or if you've got ideas of other IP related data sets that'd be useful for your use case, or of any product feedback) let me know - ben@ipinfo.io
I think it could be a US / Europe thing. In the UK (where I'm originally from) I think almost all door locks I've seen require a key to unlock from the inside, but in the US (where I've lived for 7 years) I don't think I've ever seen one - they deadbolt usually has something that you can unlock by hand without a key from the side (and not even an option to lock it from the side with a key).
I'm also from the UK but I left more than 30 years ago. I feel nervous every time I visit my family in the UK because now they all have locks that require a key on the inside and frequently the key is misplaced.
I understand the reason for it but I wish a better solution could be found.
IPinfo.io | Various Roles [Eng / Data / PM / BizDev / Growth / Sales] | Remote | Full-time or Part-time or Contract
I started https://ipinfo.io as a small side project 6 years ago, and it has since grown to now handling over 20 billion API requests a month, thousands of customers, is used by hundreds of thousands of developers. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing. Here's a recent interview where I talk a bit about the company: https://securitytrails.com/blog/ben-dowling-ipinfo
We're a small, remote team, with big ambitions. We're looking to add exceptional people to our team. If you're interested in IP address data and working on fun problems like VPN detection, active IP scanning and measurement, big data processing, scraping or helping us market and grow IPinfo then get in touch! Shoot me a mail describing your background, what you're exceptional at, and what impact you think you could have at IPinfo to ben@ipinfo.io
It'd presumably be trivial for doordash to fix this, by checking the order amount against the cost. The article explains why they might not be doing that ("growth")