I'm developing Wallpunch, a censorship resistant VPN for people in China, Iran, and Russia. Userbase is pretty small as I'm still polishing things up, but I hope to expand my marketing efforts a lot in 2026!

https://wallpunch.net/

Your website need i18n, for example, switch to Chinese automatically if `navigator.language === 'zh-CN'` ---- advice from a Chinese user.

Is it profitable at $7/month with unlimited bandwidth?

How are you going to accept payments for this without outing yourself and becoming a target to authorities in those countries?

Company is registered anonymously in another country. I also offer crypto payment options.

Site is dead

Really? What country are you connecting from? It should be accessible in China, US, Europe etc.

It's amazing that they have remained around for so long. I guess they're cheap?

The whole "developers developing development tools for developers to develop development tools for developers to..." ouroboros is exhausting.

Fair point - feedback should mainly come from real customers. But with so many AI-built and solo projects, most launches never reach that audience and just sink. it isn't meant to replace customer input but give makers a baseline of thoughtful peer reviews so they can iterate instead of getting demotivated by silence.

Isn't that better than just a registry (PH, Uneed and 100 others) that takes money and does very little?

Cool video! I think it would have given the entire video more structure and a "plot" to engage the user if you started with the original "Jeremiah Johnson" clip, and then explained why it's a lot harder in real life and how you plan to do it.

It's definitely a useful code assistant for some tasks (Bash scripts wow). Search-wise I think it's just brought us back to the level Google results were at before the SEO apocalypse, but it's slightly worse because I can never trust the AI summaries directly. I have to click the link into the authoritative sources to make sure.

It's an interesting idea, sort of a more persistent Omegle. For me though 48 hours would be far too much time. I'll either make a connection and want to remain in touch (on some other platform) within 15 minutes of the initial conversation or I will want to talk to someone else.

We want to follow the standard of real life connections. We want to give users enough time to actually get to know each other and we know doing that takes time and we don't want to rush the process.

> You get a rejection email: 'Write a rejection email. Make the message sound particularly caring and empathetic. Make no mistakes'

That part actually made me LOL.

> You have to be willing to be direct and to the point. Beating around the bush only shows you don’t believe that what you need to say is valid or worthy. Stuttering or dancing around the topic at hand conveys uncertainty and undermines your position. You must be intentional and explicit in what you say, if you want the other party to fully grasp where you are coming from.

I don't know about the premise of the article but this suggestion definitely resonates with me. It's easy enough for misunderstandings to arise even when people are trying their best to communicate what they mean. Once you start beating around the bush it's almost guaranteed the other party is going to hear something completely different than what you intent.

15, I beat the chimp!

And other chimps beat you! :-)

(5% of the recorded chimpanzee results were equal to or better than your best result)

This is awful. How about instead of increasing traffic by generating mountains of useless "humanized" filler content you create some novel, useful content?