Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by mtmail on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:11AM
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Adding an example of a niche: Those who wish to crawl Google/Bing/Amazon/Youtube results for SEO analysis around the world. You'd write a wrapper or other positive list of domains allowed through the proxy.
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Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by rsync on Sunday October 07, 2018 @12:55PM
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One very interesting niche that I recently learned about was providing a VPN with a "residential" IP block that could be used to geo-shift netflix viewing:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/138668/vps-for-us-netf...
Apparently there are a lot of people who would like to watch "US Netflix" but cannot do so from their location.
Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by zakk on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:42PM
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That’s a good idea, but usually Netflix can blacklist domains faster then a VPN provider can acquire new “residential” blocks.
Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by robben1234 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:10PM
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It's the main usage of VPN (as well as region locked mmos) for those who are not doing it for security.
Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by bigger_cheese on Sunday October 07, 2018 @09:59PM
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The Consumer advocacy group here in Australia, CHOICE, specifically recommends using a VPN service to avoid geoblocking (https://www.choice.com.au/electronics-and-technology/interne...). So there is definitely a market for this type of service.
Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by eli on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:18PM
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Plan to spend most of your time dealing with captchas and anti-scraping technology
Re:Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
by lilbobbytables on Sunday October 07, 2018 @04:09PM
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Here you can purchase dedicated or semi dedicated proxy ip's. Easy to use with network request libraries.