We launched Proxy Tester by ScrapeOps on Product Hunt 🚀
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We launched Proxy Tester by ScrapeOps on Product Hunt 🚀

And it's already Featured 😄

https://www.producthunt.com/products/proxy-benchmark-by-scrapeops

We’d love your support 👍

Proxy Tester is a free tool that benchmarks 20+ proxy providers against the URL you actually want to scrape.

Over the last few months we've been using it internally and sharing it with early users to help answer one of the most common questions in web scraping:

Which proxy provider should I use?

One thing we've learned is that there really isn't a universal answer.

A provider that performs brilliantly on one target can struggle on another.

A provider with the highest success rate might not be the most cost-effective.

And many "best proxy provider" rankings don't reflect the website you're actually trying to scrape.

That's why we built Proxy Tester to benchmark providers against real target URLs and compare:

✅ Success Rate

✅ Latency

✅ Estimated Cost

✅ Value Score

✅ Provider Rankings

The feedback so far has been really useful and has already influenced how we're thinking about future benchmark reports, provider coverage, and scoring methodologies.

Today we're taking the next step and launching it on Product Hunt.

If you'd like to support the launch, leave feedback, or tell us what we're missing, we'd genuinely appreciate it.

🚀 Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/proxy-benchmark-by-scrapeops

🔧 Proxy Tester:
https://scrapeops.io/proxy-providers/tester/

🎥 1-Minute Demo:
https://youtu.be/GR67AIWkPn0

One question for the community:

How are you currently evaluating proxy providers?

  • Trial accounts?
  • Internal benchmarks?
  • Recommendations?
  • Something else?

Would love to hear how others approach this problem.

u/Kabhishek92 — 11 days ago
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Newbie here: Meta Ads spending entire budget on one creative in the ad set. What to do?

I'm new to running ads: I recently started running meta ads and my primary targetting is on Instagram. I have 7 static creatives targeted at the same audience but for some reason only one creative is getting the entire ad spend. I have the following questions if someone expert can please help:

  1. What should I do with rest of the creatives? How do I improve my leads if no other creative gets the spend. How do I test my other creatives? What should be the next step?

  2. I am also planning to use the reels from a few collabs and run ads on them. Should I put the static creatives and video in the same ad set or different? Meta once recommended me to have it all in one ad set to improve opportunity score. But how will I test conversions and optimize if both formats are in same ad set?

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u/Kabhishek92 — 29 days ago

Any free AI presentation generator that’s actually usable for students?

Need to make like 4 presentations this month and I genuinely can’t keep spending entire nights building slides manually.

Most free AI presentation tools either:

lock everything behind paywalls

generate 5 terrible slides

or export with broken formatting

I mainly use Google Slides or Powerpoint. Just need something that can turn my class notes into a decent presentation without me fixing every single thing afterward.

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u/Kabhishek92 — 3 months ago
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Anyone else find that the hardest part of using local AI agents is actually invoking them mid-workflow?

I've got a few agents set up that I use regularly: one for summarizing, one I use while I'm in the middle of coding. They work well. The problem is getting to them without breaking whatever I'm already doing.

Alt-tabbing to a terminal or opening a new window every time kills the flow more than just doing the task manually would. I've tried keyboard shortcuts but mapping them cleanly across different apps without conflicts is its own project.

Started thinking about whether a dedicated physical trigger makes more sense than a hotkey for this kind of thing. Something that just fires the agent .

Curious if anyone else has thought about this or found a cleaner way to handle it.

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u/Kabhishek92 — 3 months ago
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Returned my Stream Deck Mini after a week. Is there anything smaller and less needy?

The profile management killed it for me. Every time I switched from coding to a call I had to remember to switch profiles too, and I just never did. Ended up using it as a very expensive mute button before sending it back.

What I actually want is something with like two or three keys that doesn't require babysitting. Mostly for Zoom and VS Code. Does that exist or is constant configuration just the price of entry with these things?

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u/Kabhishek92 — 3 months ago

Built an AI tool for German construction teams, would love honest feedback, please?

We’re building an AI tool for construction teams in Germany and would genuinely love feedback from people working in Bauleitung, Architektur, Projektentwicklung, Handwerk, etc.

The idea is simple: Instead of spending hours writing Baustellenberichte, documenting decisions, delays, Nachträge, tasks, and WhatsApp chaos… you just talk into your phone.

The AI then:

  • transcribes meetings/site notes
  • creates structured reports
  • detects tasks automatically
  • identifies change orders / delays
  • organizes photos with GPS + timestamps
  • generates PDFs/Word reports instantly

Basically: “Einfach sprechen statt Papierkram.”

A lot of construction communication still happens through:

  • voice notes
  • phone calls
  • random site conversations
  • undocumented decisions

We’re trying to solve that without making the software complicated.

A few questions for the German construction community:

  • Würdet ihr sowas im Alltag nutzen?
  • Was nervt euch aktuell an Baustellendokumentation?
  • Is GDPR/data privacy a dealbreaker for you?
  • Would you trust AI with legal/project documentation?
  • What’s missing from tools you currently use?

Also curious: Do German construction companies actually want AI tools right now, or is adoption still super slow?

Would appreciate brutally honest feedback 🙏

Danke euch!

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u/Kabhishek92 — 3 months ago