Erebus, A VPN client that runs rootless in user space
Details
- External ID
- 48386183
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Erebus, A VPN client that runs rootless in user space
- Website domain
- margaine.com
- Launched
- June 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 60
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8647540983606558
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- vpn client that runs rootless in user space
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a cross-platform user-space VPN client without root privileges requires handling virtual networking stacks (like gVisor netstack or lwIP) and local SOCKS5/HTTP proxy hooks.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on a user-space TCP/IP stack (such as gVisor's netstack in Go or smoltcp in Rust) converting raw IP packets into stream traffic without creating kernel TUN/TAP interfaces. It routes traffic through protocol tunnels (e.g., WireGuard or Shadowsocks) entirely via unprivileged sockets. While an LLM can generate standard proxy boilerplate, debugging edge cases in user-space network translation and DNS interception requires solid networking systems knowledge.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1039 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #140 of 1040 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 215 days after the earliest competitor.
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- blakcat · github · 2026-09-18 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Ovlt · hn · 2026-05-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- kite · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- selfhosted · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- nexora-migrate · github · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- stelliberty_android · github · 2026-09-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hamed_Panel · github · 2026-09-13 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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