What we shipped this month: geocoding, IP, time zone and more
A roundup of recent work across the API: new compatibility hosts, faster time zone and elevation lookups, dashboard features, and clearer quota visibility.
A referral program for anyone who sends us a customer
Word of mouth has always mattered for a small, focused API company like ours, so we built a formal way to recognize it. A referral program is now live inside the client dashboard, available to any account that wants to take part.
The idea is simple. If you tell a colleague, a client, or another developer about My Geocode, and they sign up and become a paying customer, that referral is worth something back to you. The mechanics live entirely inside the dashboard at /dashboard/referrals, where a referral link and any activity tied to it are tracked automatically, with nothing to configure by hand and nothing to request manually.
This fits naturally with how we think about the product overall. We build and run a geocoding API. That is the whole company, and a lot of our growth has always come from developers mentioning us to other developers rather than from any large marketing effort. A referral program is a direct way to make that existing behavior worth something concrete, rather than leaving it as an unrewarded favor.
Anyone with a My Geocode account can find their referral details in the dashboard without needing to contact support first or apply for access. It sits alongside the other account tools already there: usage stats, invoices, API keys, two-factor authentication, and language and appearance settings, all reachable from the same place.
We designed it to be genuinely simple rather than clever. There is no tiered structure to memorize, no expiring window to track, and no fine print buried in a separate agreement. Send someone our way, they become a customer, and it shows up in your referral activity. That is the whole shape of it.
If you already recommend My Geocode informally, whether in a team chat, a blog post, or a conversation with another developer evaluating providers, generating a referral link takes a minute inside the dashboard and turns that recommendation into something tracked. And if you have not tried the API yourself yet, the free tier is still the easiest way to start: 2,500 requests a day from any address, no signup required, before you ever think about referring anyone else.
The referral program is available now to every account, existing and new, with no separate signup step required beyond visiting the dashboard.