Fake accounts flood your signup forms every day. Attackers use VPNs to hide their real locations, disposable phone numbers to bypass verification, and synthetic identities that look legitimate on the surface. Traditional rule-based validation falls short because it can’t adapt to new fraud patterns fast enough. You end up either blocking real users or letting fake ones slip through.The…
Modern web apps need pixel-perfect screenshots for UI testing, social previews, reporting dashboards, and automated monitoring. But capturing high-quality, fast-loading images remains a real headache for developers.Modern devices have pixel densities ranging from 2x on…
5 Best Free Geolocation APIs In 2025
November 7, 2025
IP geolocation is used for all sorts of things in modern web and app development. From geofencing to targeted advertising, to improving security and user authentication, to protecting online consumers from fraud and identity theft, IP geolocation is a powerful component of…
Top 10 MCP-Ready APIs for AI Integration in 2025: Making Your API Data Accessible to ChatGPT and Claude
October 25, 2025
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized communication framework that enables AI models like Claude and ChatGPT to seamlessly connect with external tools, APIs, and data sources. Developed and open-sourced by Anthropic on November 25, 2024, MCP allows AI systems to:Access real-time data beyond their training cutoff datesInteract with specialized tools to complete complex tasksMaintain…
Low and no-code AI tools like Lovable are popping up everywhere – but how well do they actually work? I’m an AI skeptic, and my assumption was “not very.” So I’ll admit I was impressed by what Lovable was able to do after only an hour of clicking around. In this…
In 2025, speed is everything. For developers and startup owners, the pressure to ship feature-rich applications has never been higher, but budgets remain tight. The traditional way of building every component from scratch is too slow and expensive to compete. This is where a…
Notifications about fluctuations in the stock market are crucial for users who closely track stock prices for their portfolios. In this article we’ll show you how to build a web app that uses real-time daily stock market data from the Marketstack API to send an end-of-day email wrap-up to users about stock prices they’ve chosen to hear about. You Will LearnHow to get real-time stock data…
Phone Validation & Carrier Lookup: Why Your Business Needs Numverify API
September 18, 2025
Most modern apps from SaaS to e-commerce collect phone numbers alongside emails during user signup, but unless those numbers are validated with a reliable Phone Validation API, they’re not just useless they can become a serious security risk for your application. In this…
Let’s face it, manually extracting data from websites is a total pain. Maybe you need to monitor competitor prices, gather leads, aggregate content, or analyze market trends. Whatever your use case, spending hours copying and pasting data from websites is not just…
In a recent tutorial, we showed you how to build an IP-based threat detection system using IPStack’s security module (You can watch the step-by-step youtube video here) In this article, we’ll build on that lesson by incorporating real-time alerts that let you know when a suspicious IP address attempts to access your site.Fraud detection is critical for securing your user-facing services.