Censorship isn't the same everywhere. What gets through in Iran is dead in China, and both change every few months. So HorizonVPN isn't one config shipped worldwide. Every region gets its own protocol setup, tuned to what that country's filtering is actually doing, and updated when it moves. Your app just connects. Eight transports, Smart DNS for consoles and TVs, no activity logs, and apps on every platform we could reach.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built this out of one specific frustration. You're on a network that
decided VPNs are a problem, and your VPN just stops. It's not slow. It
connects, sits there, and nothing moves.
Here's the part I'd want you to take away. Censorship isn't one problem.
What works in Iran gets killed in China, what works in China is
pointless somewhere else, and all of it shifts every few months. Most
VPNs ship one setup to everybody and leave you guessing in a settings
screen.
We build region by region instead. Each region gets its own protocol
configuration, tuned to what that country's filtering is doing right
now, and we change it when the filtering changes. On your side the app
just picks whichever transport is alive on your network, out of eight of
them: UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTP and a few obfuscated ones. You never open
settings.
There's a second half to it. A PlayStation or a smart TV can't run a VPN
app, but it does have two DNS fields sitting in network settings. Smart
DNS uses those, so the console changes region with no app installed and
no speed cost. Set it once on the router and the whole house is covered.
Same subscription, no extra charge.
The rest is the stuff that shouldn't have to be a selling point. We
don't log your activity. The kill switch is built so it can't leave you
sitting there with no VPN and no internet either, which is a failure I
hit more than once with other apps. And there are real native apps, not
one app and six wrappers: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, TV, plus
a Chrome extension.
The protocol side is the part I like talking about. If you've dealt with
DPI, or you know a network that kills tunnels, I'd like to hear what you
ran into. And if Horizon fails to connect somewhere, tell me where and
I'll go look at it.
Arkin