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Fanout
Zero trust private network with multicast video that works
- Score
- 48
- confidence 53
- Evidence
- 7
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 90 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2011
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Network administrators monitor multicast streams and health metrics from dashboards with dense visibility into groups, relays, and access rules. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Groups
All streams healthy6 groups
About this appAI proposal
Fanout is a zero trust private network built so multicast works from the start. Devices join with single sign-on, connect directly where they can, and multicast groups such as video feeds and discovery protocols carry across the network without extra relay servers that you run yourself.
It is for teams who picked a fast, stable mesh VPN and then found that multicast video or multicast-dependent tools did not work well, or who picked a multicast-friendly one and gave up some stability. Fanout aims to remove that trade-off.
You see each multicast group, who is subscribed, and how each stream is doing, so you can fix a stuttering feed without guessing.
- Tagline
- Private networks where every stream arrives, to everyone who should see it.
- Voice
- PlainPreciseCalm
- Why this name
- Fanout is what multicast does: one sender, many receivers. It is a plain word, easy to say, and names the one job this network does well.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
First-class multicast groups
Create named groups, choose which devices may send or receive, and carry multicast across the private network.
No member yet
Stream health view
See bitrate, loss and jitter for each multicast stream and each receiver, in one live page.
No member yet
Access rules by identity
Allow people and devices, not IP ranges. Rules apply to unicast and multicast alike.
No member yet
Managed relay points
Add relays near remote sites from the console. No hand-built moon servers to configure and patch.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Private networks where every stream arrives, to everyone who should see it.
PricingAI proposal
Verified pricing pages: Tailscale lists paid plans from $1 to $18 a month, Zerotier from $18 to $179 a month, both with free plans. These tiers sit in that range and are a starting point to test.
Free
Free
- Up to 3 users
- 5 devices
- 1 multicast group
Team
$8 a month
- Per user
- Unlimited multicast groups
- Stream health view
- Access rules by identity
Video
$25 a month
- Per user
- Managed relay points
- Bandwidth guardrails
- Alerts to chat and email
Enterprise
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Users invite others. A network admin invites teammates, contractors and remote sites to join. Each invited device installs the PWA console and the agent, and sees the network name when joining.
- Do they become customers?
- Invitees are often engineers who run their own networks and could start one. Test whether invited site owners create a second network within 60 days.
- First customers
- Small AV, broadcast and surveillance integrators of 5 to 50 people who link multicast video between customer sites and already use a mesh VPN.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Reddit: Post a test of multicast video across Fanout, Tailscale and Zerotier with open measurements, in threads where the problem is discussed.
- AV and broadcast forums: Offer free setups to integrators who report multicast problems and ask for written feedback.
- Homelab communities: Free tier for individuals to collect bug reports and public stories.
- First milestone
- Five integrators pay for a team plan after a 30-day trial that streams multicast video between two or more sites.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimTailscale offers superior performance and stability compared to Zerotier.
- Public claimZerotier handles multicast video better than Tailscale, but this advantage is limited.
- Public claimUsers resort to deploying intermediate infrastructure to improve multicast video performance in Zerotier.
- VerifiedTailscale's pricing page lists 4 paid plans, from $1 to $18 a month, plus a free plan and prices on request for larger customers
- Verified
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Network agentNative cross-platform agent with virtual network interfaceA browser app cannot carry traffic, so devices need an installed agent that handles encryption and multicast.
- This app · Relay serversRegional relay servers on a bandwidth-friendly hostRelays near remote sites carry video when direct paths fail, and Vercel cannot run them.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalMatching the speed and stability of established mesh VPNs while adding multicast is hard. Multicast over encrypted overlays on varied home and office routers may fail in ways that are hard to reproduce.
- PlatformOperating system limits on virtual network drivers and multicast handling differ on Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile. A PWA console cannot carry traffic, so a native agent is needed.
- CommercialIncumbents could improve their multicast support. The market for multicast over zero trust is only evidenced by public forum claims, so demand needs proof.
- TechnicalRelay servers carrying video cost bandwidth, so the Video tier's margin depends on traffic that may be higher than expected.
- Intellectual propertyName needs a trademark check. Networking protocols and mesh techniques may have patents or licence terms to review before building.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.