From Proxy Devices to a Self-Serve Shop
What is The Social Proxy, and what drives it?
The Social Proxy is a leading proxy supplier developing and producing residential 4G and 5G proxies.
The company’s goal is to solve online identity issues and enable users to safely perform complex operations such as automation, crawling, scraping, and more.
Its proxies help customers achieve high success rates in their fields. In the company’s own words:
“The Social Proxy is an innovative and leading company in the 5G and 4G proxy industry, with hundreds of happy users. We believe in an open and transparent web. Our mission is to assist our clients and users to operate without being tracked and followed while providing direct access to online data collection and making data accessible and affordable to everyone.”
The Brief The Social Proxy Gave Provis
When The Social Proxy approached Provis in 2018, it wanted to implement a shopping cart experience for proxy buyers. (At the time the project covered 4G proxies; it was later extended to 5G.)
The project had two goals:
- Build the backend infrastructure that links the company’s proxy devices to its web interface through APIs.
- Build the frontend web interface: a shop where customers buy proxies.
Although the first phase served Israel, the platform had to be built so that coverage could be added later. That is how it was extended to the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States (notably New York and Texas).
What Provis Built for The Social Proxy
Beyond the shop, Provis built further features and took on support:
- APIs for customers, so they can reboot and manage their proxies from their own applications instead of returning to The Social Proxy’s web interface each time.
- A React-based social media integration that adds several apps for customers to use.
- A mobile app for using and managing proxies.
- An affiliate marketing program to drive proxy sales.
And Provis stayed on as the second line of support
- L2 support and maintenance for all feature development and technical issues.
- L2 customer support, backing up The Social Proxy’s own L1 customer-facing team.
What Were the Challenges?
The first challenge was that the project was the first of its kind, so it had to be designed from scratch.
The second was to cut the time before a purchased proxy becomes available. Provis brought it down to 2 minutes.
The result is a shop that is easy for The Social Proxy’s customers to use and that puts the client’s mission of an open, transparent web into practice, including for customers who work on social media.
We delivered the project quickly, with quality control at every stage, and to the client’s requirements.
Built From Scratch
2-Minute Proxy Setup
Customer APIs
Room to Expand
Built From Scratch
2-Minute Proxy Setup
Customer APIs
Room to Expand
What the Client Says
“It took a month to build and launch the site, and internal stakeholders appreciated that they can monitor their order volumes and cross-sell more products. Provis Technologies was tech-savvy, understanding all technologies involved and picking up new ones when necessary.”
Roee Klinger, Chief Technology Officer, The Social ProxyWe value the long-term relationship we have built with The Social Proxy.
Working with a technology company in Israel was an inspiring experience for Provis. The client can extend the platform themselves, and can rely on us to support it and add new features as technology evolves.