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Spillgate
Route traffic across several DDoS shields so no single provider is a point of failure
- Score
- 47
- confidence 44
- Evidence
- 2
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 3
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2010
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Security teams monitor complex dashboards, capacity ledgers, and incident timelines during attacks from a control room or desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Routes
Under surge: split active412k rps
About this appAI proposal
Spillgate is a control layer for teams that need L7 DDoS protection at hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Instead of betting on one scrubbing provider, you connect two or more, and Spillgate decides where traffic goes, watches how each one is holding up, and shifts load when one is slow, full or gone.
It is built for security and infrastructure leads at organizations that have been hit by large distributed attacks, or expect to be. They told us the options are too expensive, too small, or may shut down. Spillgate does not replace those providers. It makes them swappable and shows what capacity you really have.
Every route has a written capacity record: what each upstream has promised, what it has handled, and when it last failed a probe. You see this before an attack, not during one.
- Tagline
- Never depend on one shield. Know your capacity before the attack.
- Voice
- CalmPlainPrecise
- Why this name
- A spillway lets overflow go somewhere safe. Spillgate does that for traffic: when one provider fills or fails, the load has another way out.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Multi-provider routing
Connect several protection or CDN providers and set primary, standby and split-traffic rules per hostname.
No member yet
Capacity ledger
Record each provider's stated capacity and observed peak requests per second, side by side, with dates.
No member yet
Health probes from many regions
Synthetic checks test each upstream path continuously and flag slow or failing routes early.
No member yet
One-tap failover
Move a hostname to a standby provider from your phone, with a preview of the DNS change first.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Spillgate
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices, so these tiers are a starting point to test. Spillgate bills for the control layer only; upstream provider fees are paid by the customer directly.
Watch
Free
- 1 hostname
- 2 providers in the capacity ledger
- Health probes every 5 minutes
- Manual failover checklist
Team
$199 a month
- 20 hostnames
- Unlimited providers
- Probes every 30 seconds
- One-tap DNS failover
- 5 team seats
Surge
$799 a month
- Unlimited hostnames
- Attack mode playbooks
- Cost per million requests report
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Spillgate runs behind the scenes in a customer's infrastructure. Its public output is limited to optional status pages, so growth comes from content, community posts and direct outreach to security teams.
- Do they become customers?
- Visitors to an optional status page are end users, not buyers. Test whether security leads reach out after reading post-attack write-ups and provider-failure checklists, and whether they will pay.
- First customers
- Infrastructure or security leads at mid-size web businesses (e-commerce, gaming, media) that have already suffered a distributed L7 attack and use or have left a protection provider.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and engineering forums: Publish a practical guide to surviving a protection provider shutdown, with the exit plan checklist as a free download.
- Direct outreach: Contact teams that posted about attacks or provider switches and offer a free capacity ledger review.
- Security meetups and Slack groups: Run short talks on multi-provider routing and invite attendees to the free tier.
- First milestone
- Ten teams on the free tier connect two providers, and three of them pay for Team within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimCloudflare can handle massive distributed DDoS attacks with L7 protection at competitive pricing, mitigating attacks from 50-90k IPs generating 300-700k rps.
- Public claimCompeting DDoS protection providers face pricing and viability challenges—customers found alternatives too expensive or shuttered.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · DNS and traffic steeringDNS provider APIs with low-TTL recordsFailover needs programmatic record changes at the customer's own DNS host.
- This app · Synthetic probesSmall probe workers in several regionsHealth checks must run outside the app's own host to see each upstream path.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialSpillgate does not absorb attacks itself. Customers still pay two or more providers, and may judge one capable provider like the one named in the evidence as simpler and cheaper.
- TechnicalDNS-based failover is only as fast as record TTLs and resolver caching. During a large attack, a switch may take minutes, which may be too slow for some customers.
- PlatformValue depends on provider APIs and terms. Some providers may limit multi-vendor setups or change their APIs without notice.
- DataHolding DNS and provider credentials makes Spillgate a target. A breach would give attackers control of customers' traffic, so security review is needed before launch.
- CommercialEvidence on this need is two public forum claims, not verified. Whether buyers want a control layer rather than a cheaper shield is untested.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.