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eyep.dev - Coolest way to get your IP address

Suresh M on July 22, 2019

Hello World, A quick side project update - Eyep. Idea Inception 💡 We built WhatsMyFood, a personal food review tracking app. We spent o...

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valentine • Jul 22 '19

I really like the layout, the animations and the fact it's dark mode.

I think a chrome extension would also be a good addition, this would allow people to grab their IP without leaving the tab they're on.

Suresh M • Jul 23 '19

Thank you, Valentine Bott 🙏
Yes, we are planning to do chrome extension ⚡️

Fernando Maia • Jul 22 '19

Opened the website before reading this post and found out that you guys have been featured on PH. I thought that I might help you out by upvoting and when I followed PH's url, I realised that I already did upvote it before.

Btw, nice work on the frontend. It looks great, particularly the map animation!

JavaScript Room • Jul 23 '19

I just shared the app's link on my Facebook page and noticed that it doesn't have a preview image. Looks like the meta tags for social media are missing. You can add them for a better sharing experience, it's a good practice. You can read more about them here: css-tricks.com/essential-meta-tags...
And again, great job guys!

Suresh M • Jul 24 '19

This is really helpful. Thanks a lot, Javascript Room.

JavaScript Room • Jul 24 '19

You're welcome! Please keep doing great things!

A • Jul 22 '19

It looks great, good job on that.
Maybe a comfortable curl endpoint would be a feature request if you're looking to hook more tech people.

ifconfig.co works for me, both from browser and with cURL. Doesn't look as nice but still functional enough for me and same endpoint from terminal and browser.

David J Eddy • Jul 22 '19

I appreciate the simple interface, quick response, and that the animation does not prevent the IP from showing on load. The animations are background and 'extra' eye candy.

Congratulations on landing that top PH spot. I look forward to your next product release!

Suresh M • Jul 24 '19

Yes, We don't want the animation to interrupt the user from fetching IP address.
Thanks David. We will give our best for next product 💪🏻

fischgeek • Jul 22 '19

Very cool! What are you using for capturing the IP data? I looked into this once and found I had to pay for API end points if I wanted it public. Just curious.

LD • Jul 23 '19

Hey @fischgeek , thank you for asking. Here is the tech stack:

🌐IP and its location by ipstack.com/
🗺️Map by Google Map & styled by snazzymaps.com/
💻Frontend - Vanilla JS & Backend - AWS Lambda

As you said, Most of the IP Geolocation API's do not expose in https in their free plan. So had to come up with AWS Lambda which will invoke the http API and serve the response to the static website in https.

Hopefully, when people love it and we get more hits every day, then we will upgrade to the paid plan and eventually remove the AWS Lambda.