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Genbeta is a super famous tech website in Spain. It has got a good audience in Latin America too. According to similarweb, it receives around 9Million hits/month.

It is a really good feeling when you get featured on a website, where you don't even speak the language.

Just within a day, we got 6,000 unique users and more than 10,000 page views. At one point in time, we exceeded the API limit and almost 1000 users were not able to see their IP address. Lessons learned.

dev.to is an amazing community for developers. To our surprise, we got featured on the home page. This drove a good amount of traffic from various places namely South Africa, Dubai, and East-European countries.

https://dev.to/sureshmurali29/eyep-dev-coolest-way-to-get-your-ip-address-53d8

It is really a good feeling when people write articles about your side project. This gained a lot of traction from Taiwan, Macau & Hongkong.

We received around 1.7k new unique users from this article. We hope for returning visitors.

https://ez3c.tw/7512

The initial hype was all good, but the true success is organic search. And I found eyep.dev does not appear in google search for the keyword "what is my IP address".

Did the preliminary SEO steps like updating the title and meta tag. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8MU_cIhL0g really helped to understand how SEO works in 2019.

Have updated search console, let's see how it goes.

We didn't have many expectations after Launch, as we know people would forget after a day. But the next day, our individual profiles and the eyep.dev got too many hits and they were coming from Turkey.

And then we realized that webrazzi, a popular tech site in Turkey wrote about us. Here is the link: https://webrazzi.com/2019/07/09/ip-adresi-bulma-eyep/ They coined a new term called one-click platform for IP address. People were coming up with funny memes with the site. That made us happy.

Then I realized, word-of-mouth is the true & free marketing that you can get.

As we are a big fan of PH, we launched it. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/eyep. To our surprise, We are the #1 Product of the day. People liked the design, appreciated and even suggested us to come with a chrome extension.

That day, we got close to 4.5k page views and 2.4k unique users. It was a long time dream to make it to the top of PH and we made it.

As many of you know, make sure you schedule your PH post well in advance. Come up with a catchy GIF for your logo. Add youtube videos, illustration to make it easy for people to understand. The community is so helpful in pointing out the issues, giving you new ideas and suggestions.

I wanted to get my IP address. On googling, I got it in an instant. But I found several sites in the google search, that displays your IP address, location, ISP providers and so on. Then the site https://whatismyipaddress.com was top on the search. I was shocked to know, that this site had 10 million hits/month. My Friend Suresh said we can do this better, hence eyep.dev

With the world moving towards single-purpose website/app, dark mode and a better UX. Suresh came up with the site in a matter 2 days.

Earlier, we did https://whatsmyfood.glitch.me, a Personal food review tracking made easy. We spent around one year making this. Didn't get much attention that we expected and we decided we should start making small products.

We are a big fan of ProductHunt(PH). It was a long time goal to be at the top of PH. That was also one of the motivation.