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Custom branded OpenVPN clients?
PulsedMedia
Member, Patron Provider
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I got a peculiar request today from another company, they'd like us to setup custom openvpn machines for them and need simple to use branded client, essentially stuff like every major VPN provider out there has. They basicly need this for those working remotely but with limited IT know-how, so it needs to bundle everything.
I am sure this got to be something FOSS / for price you can get instead of reinventing the wheel, but what is generally being used by the major providers?
Preferrably need Win, Linux and Mac versions.
The only thing with googling i found was: https://codecanyon.net/item/custom-openvpn-gui-pro-edition/9904287
and that does not look trustworthy at all
My googlefu is failing apparently 
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+1 holler if you find something, I been hunting for something like that for a while now
https://codecanyon.net/item/brandable-openvpn-electron-gui-js-app-theme-with-kill-switch-vpn-management-and-remote-server-pull/25145045
well that looks better but 1000$ :O
Know any business which uses this already? Electron framework is intriguing as well, somehow sounds like Adobe AIR replacement? have to take a look at it as well
You should. I've created something similar for a company with Electron and it was easy to build-package rather than using something like Qt which I used to select for a project like that.
I cannot go into many details as it was covered by a pretty tight NDA. However, what you need is basically
It only costs 399, not 1000. I think if you are not reselling the app itself you only need to pay 399.
Why not something based off of WireGuard.
https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace
for an electron app? jeez
(if it was written with react native, it would be a decent deal)
I am a fan of doing things just once and using same work for many things - So we would use the same codebase for a few different brands - change logo and off you go
So technically that would be reselling the code itself.
For example we offer OpenVPN with all our seedboxes, but just provide the openvpn config package and instruct to use standard client. Would be nicer and easier if things would be bundled
OpenVPN is more common and supported (this would go to many non-tech savvy and old systems etc.). WireGuard would be nice, but the same question exists: Cross platform easy to use brandable client?
For wireguard I believe Mullvad has their client open sourced. You can work on it to customize it to your needs, if knowledge allows for it of course.
Finally i need to also find a user management frontend (preferrably PHP) to give to the end customers, any suggestions?
I think we might go with https://codecanyon.net/item/brandable-openvpn-electron-gui-js-app-theme-with-kill-switch-vpn-management-and-remote-server-pull/25145045
We use WHMCS (modded heavily for user privacy) for billing/CRM. Happy to help setup and share our modified core WHMCS code, PHP modules and hooks. They can be changed easily to use without WHMCS as well.
This is interesting - you modded WHMCS core? :O
I am at the very least what changed you guys made, just out of curiosity.
I'm also interested to know how you modified WHMCS.
Is it even allowed to modify it?
How did you get around ionCube?
Did you go with it? How was your experience? I am looking for OpenVPN/WireGuard GUI as well.
Sorry but not yet, our development time has gone to other projects in the meantime