IP whitelist login restriction plugin for web applications
Built for security-conscious teams restricting access to corporate networks.
“Restrict Logins to certain IP ranges…”
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Why this is a gap
Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.
The market
Security-conscious teams restricting app access to corporate IP ranges. No search volume, but IP allowlisting is table-stakes for enterprise SSO and zero-trust adoption.
Competition & the opening
Very crowded (9/10). Cloudflare Access (Zero Trust), AWS WAF, WordFence, miniOrange, and Sucuri Firewall all offer IP allowlisting. The gap: most are either infrastructure-heavy (Cloudflare, AWS) or WordPress-locked. Lightweight, framework-agnostic IP whitelist plugins for generic web apps are sparse.
What's hard to build
Distinguishing legitimate corporate proxies from spoofed IPs requires geolocation or ASN lookup—expensive at scale. Building a web app plugin that works across Node, Python, PHP, etc. means supporting multiple middleware patterns and keeping IP databases current.
Why now
Cloudflare Access and WAF are enterprise-grade; WordPress/SMB applications lack simple, affordable IP allowlist login plugins in a crowded but underserved niche.
How you'd monetize
WordPress plugin freemium ($0–10/mo for basic IP rules, premium for advanced log