blakcat
A privacy-focused VPN service — our own servers, our own apps for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Details
- External ID
- 1375476151
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- blakcat
- Website domain
- blakcat.app
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 23
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6508455034588778
- Tags
- android, clash, ios, macos, privacy, proxy, shadowrocket, shadowsocks, v2ray, vpn, windows, xray
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cross-platform vpn for personal online privacy
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Operating a commercial cross-platform VPN network requires deploying and maintaining a global fleet of physical/virtual servers, custom network routing, and low-level OS TUN/TAP driver development across iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
What it would actually take: Needs a multi-region cloud/bare-metal server fleet running WireGuard or custom cryptographic network tunnels, backed by orchestrated routing tables, IP pool rotation, and DDoS protection. Native client apps must implement low-level networking extensions (NetworkExtension on iOS/macOS, VpnService on Android, Wintun drivers on Windows) along with strict kill-switch, DNS leak prevention, and secure credential exchange handling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 504 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #165 of 505 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Erebus, A VPN client that runs rootless in user space · hn · 2026-06-03 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- kite · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- aero-browser · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- psstpsst · github · 2026-09-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- edge-smart-doh · github · 2026-09-30 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Chuchu, an Android SSH client built on libghostty · hn · 2026-05-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- We served 5k dynamic websites from a 2-vCPU, 4 GB VPS · hn · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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