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Show HN: IPguessr – Geolocate Random IPs (abdullahdevrel.github.io)
5 points by reincoder on July 6, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Cool concept. I really like these style of games, they work really well as a quick daily challenge. I'd suggest making a different daily challenge vs practice mode- although as a meme game it's perfect as-is.

The ASN information makes it a playable game, I enjoyed it.


Thank you very much. I wish I could invest more time in this. Just having a dedicated API or backend would mean better selection of IPs, faster gameplay, leaderboards and challenges such as having IP addresses only from a single region or country.

The intention is to go through a creative motion and develop tools and games around IP data without doubling down on any single idea. A form of confined creativity, I suppose.


I made this as meme to guess where a random IP address is geolocated just by looking at the numbers. Then I incorporated ASN and hostname information to introduce a significant winning chance in guessing.

This was coded entirely through ChatGPT/Github Copilot, and the entire functionality is based on the front end.

The selection of IP addresses is randomly generated through a simple function. Valid IP (non-bogon) selection and excluding popular ASNs is done through making an API call to IPinfo Lite. Geolocation information is gathered using the free IPinfo API.

There is a number of things that should improved and PRs are welcome: https://github.com/abdullahdevrel/abdullahdevrel.github.io/t...




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