IP Sync
Automation & notifications when important static IPs change
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Never have an IP-whitelisting related outage again: ✅ Monitor unlimited URLs and IP addresses ✅ Weekly or every-minute monitoring ✅ Automatic updates for firewall rules in AWS, Azure, or GCP ✅ Notifications by email, webhook, Slack, or Discord
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Ben Katz
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Hey Product Hunt! I'm excited to show you my newest product, https://ipsync.link
I built IP Sync to solve a very important problem that I've experienced myself: outages related to network misconfigurations. Specifically, at a previous job, we lost a significant amount of sales when one of our important partners changed their static IPs without telling us, leading to a "sev-0" system outage.
Now there's a better way to deal with this: use IP Sync to automatically stay informed about any static IP changes. With the Automate plan, IP sync will even do the work of keeping your AWS, Azure, or GCP firewall rules up-to-date! Just send IP Sync a URL to an API or text file that returns a list of IPs, and let IP Sync do the rest.
By the way, there's a launch discount available for the Product Hunt community. Just enter code PRODUCTHUNT as the discount code at checkout and receive 30% off your first year of service!
Excited to hear all of your feedback and thanks for checking this out.
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Bon
Congrats on the launch! Upvoted!
I am curious: why do we need “IP Sync”?
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Ben Katz
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@bonvisions thanks! For why it’s needed, it helps prevent networking related outages. When static IPs are incorrectly whitelisted or become out of date, traffic can start getting rejected. I have personal experience with this as I pointed out in the pinned comment. You can check that comment out for more details!
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Bon
@ben_makes_stuff Got it, thanks for your patient explanations.
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Ben Katz
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@bonvisions no problem at all, thanks for the comment
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mccloud
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Cool product. Congrats! I agree that this solves a real problem and have seen it in a variety of jobs.
- who's the target market? is it bigger customers, since I expect that smaller companies solve this problem via lax egress firewall rules and they don't worry about it too much?
- Keeping whitelists up to date in IDS systems is a similar problem with a similar solution. Would you consider producing output that could be consumed by an IDS?
- I think some companies will really want "enterprise" features like an SLO, SSO, or whatever. Seems like you could charge more by selling these enterprise features.
- I don't think I'd give privileges to make changes to my firewall rules to a 3rd party service, but would consider a PR-driven workflow, or an on-prem deployment.
- Have you considered selling in the GCP/AWS/Azure marketplaces? (Thinking that this could solve the complexity that'd come with on-prem deployments, and provide an enterprise-friendly purchase experience?)
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Ben Katz
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@mccloud Thanks for this detailed response! Answers below:
1. Yes, primarily targeting bigger customers. You're right that most smaller companies probably don't care about this too much in the beginning. That said, I'm a small company and I want this for myself as a security-minded person, so I imagine there are at least a few others like me out there.
2. Are you referring to things like Barracuda Networks? Would you happen to know what format these products are expecting? I'm not super familiar with IDS systems, but definitely open to adding this functionality.
3. Makes sense. I'm using an identity provider that can support SSO, so I've gone ahead and added that as a feature in the pricing list for the Automate plan. I'll think about changing the pricing as well or moving SSO and enterprise support into another pricing tier - any suggestions on a price that you think makes sense?
4. Open to self-hosting, and I think your fifth point is a great way to accomplish that. I've added it as an offering for the Automate plan. For PR-driven workflows, are you thinking something like a terraform config change made through a PR? I've seen that done at previous companies.
5. I haven't, but now I have! I'll investigate this today and see how possible it is, along with an on-prem option. Maybe I'll make that a one-time payment if companies are anyway hosting this themselves.
Really appreciate this feedback, thanks again!
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