Netrinos
A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams
Details
- External ID
- 46331364
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Netrinos
- Website domain
- netrinos.com
- Launched
- Dec. 19, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 93
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.892175572519084
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I'm the founder at Netrinos. I built a WireGuard-based mesh VPN because remote access has always been a pain. After years of SSH tunnels, IPsec headaches, and the ssh log horror movie, I wanted something simpler: install, sign in, get work done.Netrinos creates a LAN-like overlay network across your devices. Connections are direct P2P via WireGuard, with no central server routing traffic. Each device gets a stable IP and DNS name (pc.you.netrinos.com). When direct connections fail, they fall back to a relay server that's still encrypted end-to-end. We can't see your traffic.The most challenging problem to solve was NAT traversal. UDP hole punching works most of the time. The rest is a cocktail of symmetric NAT, CGNAT, and serial NATs. We use STUN-style discovery and relay fallback for the edge cases. I was surprised by how unreliable low-end ISP routers really are, and how much technical wizardry it takes to hide that behind a clean, simple UX.Our stack is a Go backend for client and server, WireGuard kernel mode for Linux and Windows (macOS is userspace), Wails.io for cross-platform UI. WireGuard does all the heavy lifting. Go ties it all together.Popular use cases include: RDP to home PCs, accessing NAS without exposing it, and SSH into headless Linux boxes. One customer manages hundreds of IoT devices in the field, eliminating the need to deal with customer routers.We just released Pro with multi-user, access control, and remote gateway routing. Personal is free (up to 100 devices).I'd love to hear what you expect from a simple mesh VPN, what's missing from current tools, and what's lacking from your remote access setup. Use code HNPRO26 for a 30-day trial of Pro.https://netrinos.com
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mesh vpn for small teams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No A multi-platform mesh VPN requires custom cross-platform networking code, kernel/TUN device drivers, NAT traversal (STUN/TURN/ICE/DERP), and reliable distributed coordination.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a central coordination/signaling server (Go/Rust), custom clients using WireGuard (wireguard-go or kernel modules) across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, and NAT traversal relays. Hard components include reliable hole-punching through symmetric NATs, dynamic route mesh configuration, and OS-specific VPN adapter permissions. This demands extensive distributed systems and low-level networking domain expertise.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Tailscale, Headscale, IPsec, OpenVPN, SSH tunnels
Concerns raised: Pricing not competitive, Lack of market trust and track record, No new technology or differentiation at protocol level, Concerns about trusting a VPN service with network traffic, Residential ISP routers unreliable for connections
Feature requests: Public roadmap visibility, Short domainless names support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 200 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 201 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 51 days after the earliest competitor.
- RouteBoss: Network Control · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- SmokeVPN · hn · 2026-08-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Nullwire · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard) · hn · 2025-11-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- SMTP Tunnel · hn · 2026-01-07 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- VPN Gate Client for Linux · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HTTP-network-relay: Tunnel TCP over HTTP using WebSockets · hn · 2025-12-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- dorm-vpn-bypass · github · 2026-09-11 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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