I appreciate you enjoying the game! I work for IPinfo but initially made it as a sort of meme for our users.
I'm generating random IP addresses on the frontend, then making an call to our free API to validate the "realness" of the IP addresses — mainly to remove bogon IP addresses, non-routable IPs, and IPs from large ASNs (national ISPs, the DoD, car companies, etc.).
Our free API supports 1,000 requests per day from unique IP addresses, so there shouldn't be any issues for low usage. However, if we get more power users who enjoy the game, I’ll switch to our Lite API service (which is also free, https://ipinfo.io/lite) to validate IP addresses, as it supports unlimited requests.
Let me know if you have any feedback for me :) I made it mostly by "vibe coding", I will write a post about the whole process of it.
I'm generating random IP addresses on the frontend, then making an call to our free API to validate the "realness" of the IP addresses — mainly to remove bogon IP addresses, non-routable IPs, and IPs from large ASNs (national ISPs, the DoD, car companies, etc.).
Our free API supports 1,000 requests per day from unique IP addresses, so there shouldn't be any issues for low usage. However, if we get more power users who enjoy the game, I’ll switch to our Lite API service (which is also free, https://ipinfo.io/lite) to validate IP addresses, as it supports unlimited requests.
Let me know if you have any feedback for me :) I made it mostly by "vibe coding", I will write a post about the whole process of it.