A day-pass VPN with a single server, with SMS capabilities (with your GSM SIM card). Sort of like a VPN vending machine. Tech-stack: OpenVPN + MySQL + some Pyt

A day-pass VPN with a single server, with SMS capabilities (with your GSM SIM card). Sort of like a VPN vending machine. Tech-stack: OpenVPN + MySQL + some Python scripts as glue + PayPal integration. Use case: If you need a Venezuelan IP address [0]. you'd just access the VPN front site, pay for a day-pass, and use the VPN [1]. Also banks use SMS-based 2FA, so having the SIM card in the server helps [2]. Turns out there are cheaper VPNs that do have Venezuelan IP addresses, though my offered benefit is to offer home random IP addresses, which makes it more stealth. Also the economics didn't help, and the upstream bandwidth isn't great as well. I took down the site and just left the VPN for myself and some trusted friends. Also, if someone did something sketchy with it, it'd by tied to my home address. Maybe someday I'll create a blog post about it. -- [0]: Something very niche, banks here don't allow people foreign IP addresses to do bank transfers, etc., they could also block your bank account entirely. [1]: It'd issue short lived certificates for the amount of time purchased. [2]: With a ZTE MF667 USB modem.