HypeProxies
👤 Gunnar Catlett (Bootstrapped to $3M/yr and 20K+ users with about 13 people, no VC — early bet on the sneaker/ticket niche giants ignored.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A bootstrapped founder rents 500K US IP addresses to anyone who needs to dodge bot defenses — resellers pay monthly.
Will it work? · our read
Quietly profitable. A dorm-room proxy shop reached $3M/yr by supplying the sneaker- and ticket-resell crowd with US ISP IPs the big data vendors never chased.
01How the money moves
Amass 500K+ US ISP IPs into a fast proxy pool
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Resellers and scrapers rent IP pools to get past bot defenses
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Charge $65-300+/mo per pool, recurring
02The numbers
About $3M/yrEstimateannual, founder-stated
2025 (est.)source:
$3 million in annual revenue
Operational scale is self-reported on the site; the $100M in goods and $3M revenue are founder-stated.
Stripe-verified: $356K in the last 30 days, $11.2M all-time (Aug 2026).
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See a full teardown, free → ImportYetiSourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Proxyway review — CEO Gunnar Catlett: 20K+ customers, $100M in goods fetched, $3M annual revenue.TrustMRR — Stripe-verified: $356,300 last 30 days, $11.2M all-time (Aug 2026).HypeProxies — pricing and scale stats (500K+ IPs, 60B+ requests/mo, 20K+ paid users).Gunnar Catlett on LinkedIn — founder and CEO.
Revenue headline is founder-stated: Gunnar Catlett told Proxyway the business does about $3M a year (20K+ customers, $100M in goods fetched) — first-party but not audited, so sourced STATED. The article carries no visible publish date, so the 2025 asOf year is an estimate, not printed on the page. Corroboration: HypeProxies' own Stripe data on TrustMRR (verified via API key) shows $356,300 in the last 30 days and $11.2M all-time as of Aug 2026, implying a current run-rate nearer $4.3M — the business has grown past the older $3M quote. No regulatory filing exists (private US company), so verified reflects a first-party statement plus Stripe-verified dashboard, not audited accounts. Scale metrics (500K+ IPs, 60B+ requests, 20K+ users) are self-reported on the site. No documented drama: the founder's education/origin story could not be confirmed from any fetchable source, so it is omitted rather than asserted. Won on early focus on a niche the data giants ignored and on community trust. Note: LinkedIn lists about 2 employees but the founder says roughly 13 work on it. We never score you.