Colitu
Open-source VPN built for restricted networks
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Details
- External ID
- 1268827
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Colitu
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Open Source, Privacy, GitHub, VPN
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Colitu is an open-source VPN designed for restricted, unstable and high-loss networks. It automatically switches between modern connection technologies including Hysteria2, VLESS Reality, VLESS XHTTP, Trojan and Shadowsocks 2022. Colitu is available for Windows, Android, Android TV and Linux, with public source code, server status information and privacy-focused infrastructure. A free plan is available with no credit card required.
Enrichment
- Niche
- network utility and privacy tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source vpn for restricted networks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a cross-platform VPN client supporting modern censorship-circumvention protocols (Hysteria2, VLESS Reality, XHTTP, Trojan) requires deep systems networking, TUN/TAP driver interfacing, and anti-censorship cryptographic knowledge across Windows, Linux, and Android.
What it would actually take: A functional implementation requires wrapping low-level network proxy cores like Xray-core or sing-box, implementing OS-level virtual network adapters (Wintun on Windows, VpnService on Android, tun on Linux), and writing a cross-platform GUI (Flutter or Qt/Go). The primary challenges are low-level packet routing, DNS leak prevention, bypassing DPI (deep packet inspection) with complex TLS masquerading (Reality), and maintaining socket stability over high-packet-loss UDP protocols like QUIC/Hysteria2.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Relay · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- supvpn · github · 2026-09-15 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- VPN Gate Client for Linux · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Retune·FM · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- VPN onLine — Fast & Private · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- cdn-tunnel · github · 2026-09-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Netrinos · hn · 2025-12-19 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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