Hotaru VPN

Hotaru VPN is a Telegram bot and Mini App that provides Russian-speaking users with a VPN service offering unrestricted access to online services, unlimited traffic, LTE-mode connectivity, and ad-blocking for YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify. The onboarding flow is minimal: new users solve a simple math captcha to prove they are human, then land directly in the web-based account management Mini App hosted at hotaruapp.co.uk. The service is monetised via a subscription model with a free trial entry point ('Можно БЕСПЛАТНО попробовать!'). The Mini App includes a PaymentDrawer component and a promo-code modal, indicating paid tiers activated either through a payment flow or via coupon codes distributed on the companion Telegram channel @hotaru_vpn. The target audience is Russian-speaking users who need to bypass geo-restrictions on popular digital services and want a clean, mobile-first account dashboard integrated directly inside Telegram. With ~14,400 active users the product is in a healthy growth phase. Technically the Mini App is a React Router SPA (evidenced by __reactRouterVersion global) styled with Mantine UI, featuring a service worker for offline resilience, branding-cache localisation, and tight Telegram SDK integration (fullscreen, invoice, QR scan, download, and home-screen APIs).