About Vilfo

Vilfo is created by the team behind OVPN.com, but is an entirely independent company. Years ago, we started the development of a product called OVPNbox - which was a router based on pfSense.

We learned a lot by building OVPNbox, and several lessons were tough. Vilfo is the result of all that learning.

The software for Vilfo was released to OVPNbox owners in January 2018. Their feedback and experience was be the basis on further improvements until we shipped all pre-orders in May 2018.

Vilfo AB is located in Stockholm, Sweden. The team consists of Alexander Koval, Nikolay Nizruhin, Andy Tsymbal, Tamas Szabo, Maximilian Holm, Ruben Rehn & David Wibergh.

2014

The idea of OVPNbox was born

We wanted a simple way to protect all devices in a home or office without having to install software on all units and handle their connectivity.

2015

Delivery of OVPNbox v1

The predecessor of Vilfo, OVPNbox v1, was shipped to customers in May 2015. It was based on pfSense and ran on a Shuttle DS61.

Improvements & new generation of OVPNbox

After feedback from customers we had a long period of releasing updates and learning from our mistakes.

We also wanted to improve the hardware a lot and offer wireless capabilities, and thus we started the search for new hardware.

2016

OVPNbox v2 was released!

Containing a lot of improvements and better hardware we released OVPNbox v2 to the world. Almost a thousand units were sold to OVPN.com customers.

Improvements & lessons

By selling a thousand units we received a lot of feedback. That feedback is the core of Vilfo.

We learned what we did right - and what we should do better. As a result, we hired people to have a full-knitted team of dedicated developers to ensure that Vilfo will provide the best user experience a router can offer

2017

Start working on Vilfo prototype

We went through about 20 different designs. This was one of the final designs we played with.

Beta release of Vilfo for OVPNbox testers

Onboarded the first OVPNbox customers to beta test the Vilfo software.

Release 23 November

Decided on a design

The final product design was selected and CAD models were created to be able to create the first prototypes.

Continued work on Vilfo

The beta testers provided incredibly valuable feedback which we used to further improve Vilfo

Received the first prototype

With great affection we were able to hold Vilfo in our hands for the first time.

Featured on ProductHunt

To our great surprise, Vilfo was featured on ProductHunt

2018

Second iteration of prototyping

We made some design changes to the prototype in terms of coloring and contexture as well as simplyifing the assembly.

Order steel moulds

We were satisfied with the design changes we made and ordered the production of the steel moulds.

29 January

Order production of motherboards

We ordered the motherboards for the first 500 Vilfo units

26 February

Launched on Indiegogo

We launched our crowd-funding campaign for Vilfo on Indiegogo!

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