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Crowdsourced Bot Network IP Database API
A continuously updated, community-fed database of known bot network IP ranges and residential proxy endpoints, accessible via API. Users contribute detected bot IPs and query the database for IP reputation checks, with auto-sync capabilities for Google Ads exclusion lists. The database grows more valuable with each user contribution.
Por qué es importante
You manage online ad campaigns and have slowly built up an IP exclusion list of hundreds or thousands of known bot networks. You did this manually, one campaign at a time, discovering each bot IP after it already wasted your budget. You wonder why there isn't a shared database where advertisers pool their collective knowledge of bot networks. When you find a new bot IP, you want to contribute it so others don't have to learn the hard way. You also want to benefit from others' discoveries automatically, syncing new bot IPs to your exclusion list without lifting a finger.
- · Creado para Developers and marketers running online ad campaigns who currently maintain manual IP exclusion lists, plus ad-tech companies needing IP reputation data.
- · Monetización más probable: Freemium API (free tier with rate limits, paid for bulk queries and auto-sync).
El Dolor · Narrativa
You manage online ad campaigns and have slowly built up an IP exclusion list of hundreds or thousands of known bot networks. You did this manually, one campaign at a time, discovering each bot IP after it already wasted your budget. You wonder why there isn't a shared database where advertisers pool their collective knowledge of bot networks. When you find a new bot IP, you want to contribute it so others don't have to learn the hard way. You also want to benefit from others' discoveries automatically, syncing new bot IPs to your exclusion list without lifting a finger.
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Señal de Mercado
Estrategia de lanzamiento
Solo marketers and developers who manually maintain Google Ads IP exclusion lists and have at least 100 entries
~30K advertisers globally maintain manual exclusion lists, with potential to expand to all self-serve ad buyers
Hacker News launch emphasizing the shared-database and community angle, followed by SEO targeting 'Google Ads bot exclusion' long-tail queries
$19/month for auto-sync with up to 10K API queries, free tier for manual lookups
100 API users and 500 community-submitted bot IP ranges within 30 days
Alcance del MVP · 1-2 semanas
- Design PostgreSQL schema for IP ranges with reporter tracking, confidence scores, and timestamps
- Build REST API with endpoints: GET /ip-reputation, POST /report-bot-ip, GET /exclusion-list
- Seed database with known datacenter IP ranges from public ASN data
- Create simple web UI for searching IPs and viewing community contributions
- Set up rate limiting and basic API key authentication
- Build Google Ads exclusion list export in Google Ads-compatible CSV format
- Add webhook system for auto-syncing new bot IPs to users' Google Ads accounts
- Implement confidence scoring algorithm based on independent reporter count and time decay
- Create community leaderboard showing top contributors to gamify submissions
- Write launch post emphasizing the '4000 networks maintained manually' pain point
Diferenciación
Por qué esto podría fallar
Autorrefutación: la señal de confianza más importante
- 1IP-based detection is becoming obsolete as bot operators shift to residential proxies from compromised consumer devices, meaning the database's core asset (IP ranges) loses value over time
- 2Established IP reputation vendors like MaxMind and IPQualityScore already have massive databases and could add a community-contribution feature quickly if they see the threat
- 3The database could be poisoned by malicious submissions — competitors could submit legitimate publisher IPs as bots, and without expensive verification, false positives would erode trust
Resumen de evidencia
Cómo la IA sintetizó esta información: sin citas textuales
One commenter explicitly described maintaining over 4000 manually excluded IP networks just in the US, and another directly asked whether a shared database exists. A third user suggested a site called knock-knock.net as similar but limited. Multiple commenters (~4) explained that bot networks increasingly use residential proxies from trojan-infected smart TVs, routers, and consumer software, making pure IP-range blocking less effective over time. The clear gap is a community-fed, ad-fraud-specific IP database with auto-sync to ad platforms, though the residential proxy trend threatens the long-term viability of any IP-centric approach.
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Titular
Crowdsourced Bot Network IP Database API
Subtítulo
A continuously updated, community-fed database of known bot network IP ranges and residential proxy endpoints, accessible via API. Users contribute detected bot IPs and query the database for IP reputation checks, with auto-sync capabilities for Google Ads exclusion lists. The database grows more valuable with each user contribution.
Para Quién Es
Para Developers and marketers running online ad campaigns who currently maintain manual IP exclusion lists, plus ad-tech companies needing IP reputation data
Lista de Funciones
✓ REST API for batch IP reputation queries returning bot probability score ✓ Community submission endpoint where users report confirmed bot IPs ✓ Auto-sync integration with Google Ads IP exclusion settings ✓ Historical tracking of bot network migration patterns ✓ Confidence scoring based on number of independent reporters
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