very reasonably priced, if I had a mac I'd be trying it out.
what I want is a vpn that the BBC that fools the bbc into thinking I'm in the UK. They're wise to my current one, pia.
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Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#32I've worked with the founder (Joost H., Remy says Hi). Can vouch for him, all-round good tech guy. He was a Windows server admin at a big cloud provider (CloudVPS), I was one of the Linux guys. He knows his way around Windows, hyper v and clustering. Even some Linux. Quit his job to work full time on the startup with his brother. Big plus one here. I'd trust wifimask if I wasn't capable of hosting my own servers and…
Hi Remy! Thanks for your support! :-)
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#33Bummer, iOS and MacOS only.
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#34Why focus on Apple devices only? It seems like a strange business decision to limit a general service to a minority of the market only.
I think it's a good place to start, especially to avoid scaling issues.
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#35I've worked with the founder (Joost H., Remy says Hi). Can vouch for him, all-round good tech guy. He was a Windows server admin at a big cloud provider (CloudVPS), I was one of the Linux guys. He knows his way around Windows, hyper v and clustering. Even some Linux. Quit his job to work full time on the startup with his brother. Big plus one here. I'd trust wifimask if I wasn't capable of hosting my own servers and…
Hi Remy! Thanks for your support! :-)
Oh, and if anyone wants to know, WifiMask doesn't run on Windows, it's all Linux. ;-)
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#36Isn't Netherlands in the nine eyes? EDIT: "We will never share your personal information with any third party, except when we need to respond to a legal request from Dutch authorities" - https://www.wifimask.com/terms As a VPN service that means it is not thoughtful about privacy.
As a counterpoint: any VPN service that claims that they will ignore the authorities legal requests is lying. No matter what, as soon as it is a business, has a registered address and a nominal director it can be put under pressure.
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#38No Android option?
One could use any OpenVPN client on Android and Windows, see: https://www.wifimask.com/contact#androidwindows
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#39No Android option?
Unfortunately not yet, but we are working on it. Meanwhile we have example OpenVPN config files available, which you can use for OpenVPN on Android too: https://www.wifimask.com/contact#androidwindows
Re: Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
#40Nice. Wifimask looks promising, esp with ad-blocking built-in. A few questions:
Where do you purchase your servers from?
How trustworthy are the underlying VPS providers across different countries that you've got presence in?
It was recently pointed out that PIA was $30 million in debt... Looks like VPN is a brutal business, but your pricing is (low?) at $4 for unlimited devices and you're bootstrapped. How do you manage to pull it off?
What are the upcoming features that you plan? Consequently, what are the most requested features?
Thanks.