WinsVPN
WinsVPN is a privacy-first VPN service operated by Win's VPN Inc. The project is designed around a simple idea: strong privacy and censorship resistance should not be priced like a luxury product.
What we built
WinsVPN combines a lightweight client experience with an automated control plane and distributed VPN data plane. The production architecture includes:
- A Flutter-based client application
- A FastAPI/Python control plane for account verification, node coordination, and service operations
- Automated VPN node registration and health-oriented infrastructure workflows
- AmneziaWG for encrypted tunneling
- Xray/VLESS-WebSocket as an additional stealth transport layer
- AdGuard Home for DNS filtering and leak reduction
- Nginx and Cloudflare at the edge
- PayPal subscription integration and automated renewal synchronization
- Automated infrastructure backups and repeatable deployment scripts
The service is intentionally priced for accessibility, with consumer access offered at $0.99 per month and $11.88 per year.
Why it matters
A conventional VPN can protect traffic only if a user can afford it, understand it, and successfully connect in the first place. WinsVPN is being built for users who may have limited budgets, limited technical expertise, or networks where ordinary VPN traffic is unreliable or blocked.
The architecture therefore treats affordability, censorship resistance, DNS privacy, secure account provisioning, and operational automation as parts of the same product rather than separate add-ons.
Production-oriented architecture
WinsVPN separates the control plane from VPN data-plane nodes. Data-plane servers can register with the central service, allowing the system to maintain a distributed fleet without hard-coding every endpoint into the client. Account provisioning and subscription state are also integrated into the backend so a successful purchase can translate into usable service access.
The infrastructure is designed for reproducible deployment and recovery. Server setup, firewalling, node registration, service persistence, backup, and subscription synchronization are automated so the service can be operated by a very small organization without requiring a large operations team.
XPRIZE build
For the Build with Gemini XPRIZE, the submission focuses on WinsVPN as an operating business and on making its support and operational workflows AI-native while preserving the product's privacy-first design. The final submission materials document the AI workflow, Google Cloud integration, production evidence, users, revenue, expenses, and the specific Gemini API role used in the deployed application.
Sustainability
The model combines an extremely low-cost paid tier with nonprofit access initiatives. Keeping the core service inexpensive expands the addressable user base while infrastructure automation reduces the human cost of operating a distributed network. The same platform can support sponsored access programs for students and other communities that benefit from secure internet access.
Current scope
The current product is a working VPN platform and operational backend. Additional security and local-AI capabilities are being developed separately and are not represented here as already-deployed features unless demonstrated in the XPRIZE evidence package.