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Sounds like something HN readers will like, but which also would be completely commercially unviable.
by kristofferR 8y ago
Sounds like something HN readers will like, but which also would be completely commercially unviable.
- ignoramous 8y agoTrue. That's the part where we might need to think hard: A business plan. We haven't thought that far yet, tbh. Our intention is to: Put the control of the mobile device back in the hands of the consumer and empower them with simple but powerful tools. Think keybase, Stripe, or pre-2014 WhatsApp in terms of UX. Mobile VPN is key part of that vision, including building other apps around it. A lot of things triggered this: 1. The prism/carrier-iq snafu from 7yrs back. 2. The uptick in government censorship prevelant in multiple nations (India, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, etc). 3. Rise of app-economy and the relentless tracking behaviour that entails, esp from Facebook. 4. pi-hole and it's elegant solution to shut out trackers. Though I first saw this solution impl by Sam Hocevar (one of the VLC devs) in 2002 (?): http://sam.zoy.org/writings/internet/doubleclick.html http://sam.zoy.org/writings/internet/doubleclick.html 5. Not very many firms developing products like DuoSecurity did but for the end-consumer. There's a few I could find, like SecureMix (glasswire developer), Objective-See (LuLu Firewall), Jigsaw (primarily for journalists?), Purism, and KeepSafe.
- fonosip 8y agoFiltering, Adblocking, VPNs are commercially viable. More of a B2B play than B2C though