Hey HN, we’re ProxyBase. We’re building an API-first, fully headless SOCKS5 proxy network designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, LLM tool-calling, and large-scale web scraping.
Most traditional proxy networks operate in a bit of a gray area—they buy bandwidth harvested from sneaky, hidden SDK bundles embedded inside free apps. We're doing things differently:
100% Ethical Sourcing: We pay our node operators directly. People run our open-source CLI client to share their bandwidth and earn microcredits in real-time. It’s fully transparent, consent-driven, and compensated.
Built for Swarms, Not Dashboards: AI agents and automated workflows can provision, utilize, dynamically route (via metadata in the SOCKS5 auth string), and settle proxy fees entirely programmatically using US based stable coins without ever touching a manual web dashboard.
Backend Engineer (Rust): Help us scale our high-concurrency SOCKS5-to-WebSocket relay gateway and real-time ledger settlement engines.
Full-Stack Developer (TypeScript / Tauri / Rust): Own our local proxy bridging software, client-side developer portal, and integration libraries.
If you like systems-level programming (TCP/UDP, tunnel multiplexing, concurrent state) and want to work on clean, developer-first infrastructure, we'd love to chat.
Drop us a line at
jobs@proxybase.xyz
with a bit about what you've built.
I am curious if I got it right, but the business of the company is providing exit nodes for AI bots/ strangers via peoples residential IP's? This is my impression from accessing the website. I was interested at first, but now I got a bit of ethical doubts about it.
Yep, everyone comes out happy here. It's a win-win-win. Unlike other proxy businesses, we always get our providers' consent before adding them to our pool.
I think OPs mantra is "Scrape. Automate. Scale."
It feels like people who consent to this "passive" income, do not understand what they consent to.
The business model seems grey towards black. "Signup to be part of 3rd party bot farms exit node, you get paid, all will be good. Nothing bad happens, you consent"
I think you’re steering this conversation in a direction that isn’t really meaningful. We have security mechanism in place that prevents misuse and fraud.
Hey HN, we’re ProxyBase. We’re building an API-first, fully headless SOCKS5 proxy network designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, LLM tool-calling, and large-scale web scraping.
Most traditional proxy networks operate in a bit of a gray area—they buy bandwidth harvested from sneaky, hidden SDK bundles embedded inside free apps. We're doing things differently:
100% Ethical Sourcing: We pay our node operators directly. People run our open-source CLI client to share their bandwidth and earn microcredits in real-time. It’s fully transparent, consent-driven, and compensated.
Built for Swarms, Not Dashboards: AI agents and automated workflows can provision, utilize, dynamically route (via metadata in the SOCKS5 auth string), and settle proxy fees entirely programmatically using US based stable coins without ever touching a manual web dashboard.
Our Tech Stack:
Backend: Rust (Actix-web, SQLite/DashMap, WebSockets, Yamux stream multiplexing) Frontend / Desktop: React, TypeScript, Tauri (our client-side bridge app)
What we're looking for:
Backend Engineer (Rust): Help us scale our high-concurrency SOCKS5-to-WebSocket relay gateway and real-time ledger settlement engines. Full-Stack Developer (TypeScript / Tauri / Rust): Own our local proxy bridging software, client-side developer portal, and integration libraries. If you like systems-level programming (TCP/UDP, tunnel multiplexing, concurrent state) and want to work on clean, developer-first infrastructure, we'd love to chat.
Drop us a line at
jobs@proxybase.xyz with a bit about what you've built.