This looks quite promising. I think I'll give it a shot. This actually has exactly what I look for in vpn providers. Specifically what I like are the following features:

- unusual countries,

Appreciate the option, its less likely in my experience to face Captcha's when you use exit nodes in Central or South America or the MENA region (though it would be nice to see more south American options). Moldova and Bulgaria is nice too for the opsec nerds. No idea how much that jurisdictional aspect actually affects things, not that I'm talking about crime: I think people just like to feel like you have privacy even if its a little bit of larp lol

- the socks5/http feature

this was what always had me returning to mullvad, great for specific things such as Freetube to dodge youtube vpn blocks, doing Jdownloader2 load balancing to avoid strict anti scraping or anti downloading website features, or AI agents or AI powered web search, etc.

The socks5/http endpoints are by far the best feature here IMO.

- routing rules / custom exit node pools

this reminds me of the SPN app's VPN settings but is different enough to be considered genuinely novel (at least as far as I've seen offered by a VPN provider) and its really interesting. Great idea, obviously gotta try it first before I speak on this but thanks for making this dude this is cool.

My constructive feedback based on what I've seen so far:

The biggest thing missing IMO? Socks5/HTTP endpoints tied to each exit node in the same way mullvad does.

Why?

Firefox container tabs

Idk how much other people even do this is by far my biggest use of VPNs on a day to day basis and a foundation for online privacy: hooking up custom firefox container tabs, using socks5 endpoints, to different VPN exit nodes. One or two container tabs per exit node for my favorites. So so powerful and useful for isolating streams / online identities / accounts. Its not just about disassociating your accounts from one another but about keeping your account IP at least geographically consistent so it doesn't trigger back end bot detectors. For example if I log in with a lot of varying VPN IPs github will flag my account and it becomes nearly impossible to utilize their API which is a pain in the ass. Among other things.

Its rare to find this feature! I understand this is possible through the setup offered currently, but only two socks5 endpoints is limiting and dealing with the credential aspect sometimes gets buggy because you can only pass it once when setting the container tab's proxy. If there were socks5/http offered hardcoded for each exit server, using internal IP so only logged in customers can utilize them, you'd make it much easier for a guy like me. But I understand this is probably not something that will be a top concern seeing that you are just getting this thing started.

That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that there are a LOT of mullvad VPN users who learned this powerful trick and stick with mullvad because I believe the only other provider with that feature is IVPN and they are fairly slow and limited in the server selection...meaning you might be able to appeal to a lot of folks potentially if you played your marketing / Word of mouth cards right.

Regardless, this feature (even if limited) and the exit node pools/custom rules will probably be why I'll be buying a subscription over anything else in the future! This is a super promising project. Where can I follow your development updates? I hope you see success with this, its always exciting to see new VPN services come onto the scene.

EDIT: Few things I forgot to mention - there needs to be more transparency about entry servers. If most or all wireguard configs aka devices are always 'double-hop' by design by having exit pools to choose from... where will these configs connect to initially? and is it always the exact same server? What country and therefore jurisdiction is this in? Also the ToS needs more clarity on the company and the country it is incorporated in. Hope you spin up a shell company in Switzerland or whatever! A lot of ppl will keep walking if there's no protections in that realm

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