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Building a paid TCP port-reachability API for AI agents (x402, $0.0005/call)

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TL;DR I just shipped a 22nd x402 paid endpoint: TCP port-reachability scan at /api/portscan . It probes 24 well-known ports (FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RDP, VNC, etc.) with a 1s per-port timeout, parallelized across a thread pool, and retu…

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  1. 2026-09-10 19:04 · DEV Community — AI
    Building a paid TCP port-reachability API for AI agents (x402, $0.0005/call)

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