# 80K installs, 0 ratings: How a Xi'an wholesale company's VPN spent a little money to climb to #12 on Mexico's tools chart

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> The developer picked Mexico: few VPN rivals and cheap installs. It pushed installs from 4k to 80k with staged paid buys. There was no growth for several days in between, and it still has only 0 ratings. Its utilities rank climbed from #197 to #12.

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Yolo Pro · Daafittour

# 80K installs, 0 ratings: How a Xi'an wholesale company's VPN spent a little money to climb to #12 on Mexico's tools chart

**What it is** A templated free Android VPN: tap once to connect, with a speed test and IP lookup built in. It makes money only from ads.

**Why it took off** The developer picked Mexico, where VPN competition is thin and installs are cheap, and bought installs in batches. Installs went from 4 thousand to 80K (flat for several days in between, and still 0 ratings), and its tools-chart rank climbed from 197 to 12.

**C** **How you could follow it** Don't copy this disguise. Take the way it picked its market: count how many peers are in each country's top 200 category chart, then test a small budget first in a country with few peers and cheap installs to see if it pays back.

Grade C: the playbook is learnable, but the product has zero differentiation. In the same week at least six templated VPNs were climbing the charts with more volume, and you'd also take on Google Play's VPN policy and ban risk. Following it just means joining a budget race for arbitrage. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-10-21 · 11-07 installs 81,895

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-07 (8 days, 8 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Yolo Pro is an ordinary free VPN on Google Play: pick a node, tap connect, run a speed test. It launched in Oct 21, and two weeks later it reached #12 on Mexico's free tools chart. It took off for reasons that have little to do with the product: it picked a country with few competitors, then poured installs in batch after batch. Below: how this playbook works, where the money comes from, why you should avoid copying it, and what's worth learning here.

### 34K installs in a single day, zero ratings

As of Nov 1, Yolo Pro's cumulative installs were 4,449. On Nov 2 it became 38,668, up 34,219 in one day; Nov 3 added 19,228; Nov 4 and 5 saw no change at all; on Nov 6 it jumped 23,999 to 81,895 (Google Play install count, third-party estimate, 11-06). The store page now shows '50K+.'

80K people installed it, and the store page has not a single rating or a single review.

Its rank on Mexico's free tools chart went like this: 10-31 #197,11-01 #86,11-02 #60,11-03 #47,11-04 #30,11-05 #22,11-06 #12. From Nov 5 it also entered Mexico's overall app chart, reaching #163 on 11-06. After Nov 3 it gradually appeared on the tools charts of Nigeria, the Philippines, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Malaysia, ranking between #78 and #198.

A real user-found app doesn't grow this way: it doesn't go a few days with zero new installs then suddenly add tens of thousands the next day, and it doesn't have zero ratings out of 80K people. This curve looks more like the result of batch placements funded by budget: installs rise when money arrives and flatten when it stops (inference, no specific creatives were observed).

### Who made it

The store page's 'About the developer' lists the developer account Daafittour, with the legal entity **Shaanxi Daqin Industrial Co., Ltd.** , an address in an industrial park's innovation center in the Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, a Gmail contact, and a Hong Kong phone number. Checking business registration records: the company was founded in 2010, has a registered capital of 50M, and its main business is wholesale. An established wholesale company launching a VPN suggests the developer account was borrowed or bought (inference).

The website yolopro.top is a single privacy-policy page hosted on Alibaba Cloud object storage; opening the root domain gives an access-denied error. The privacy policy's 'last updated' date is Oct 22 2025, a full year before the app was listed, which suggests it was copied straight from a template. The store version is 1.0.2, and the release note reads only 'bug fix.'

Two other VPNs sit under the same account: Sweety VPN (10K+ installs) and CloudTunnel (5 thousand+), with store descriptions identical word for word to Yolo Pro's. Records from third-party app directories show this account previously also had EchoSecure (1M+ installs, 4.5 stars, 1,090 ratings) and GlobeGuard (1M+), but they're no longer visible on the developer page. Whether they were delisted or moved to another account is unverified. Third-party directories put the account's total installs at about 6M.

So Yolo Pro isn't the company's first product; it's another reskin of the same template.

### Why Mexico, specifically

As of Nov 6, counting VPNs in each country's top 200 free tools charts: Mexico 9, UAE 53, Saudi Arabia 49, Netherlands 45, Germany 45.

In Mexico, 80K installs is enough to rank #12; the same volume in the Gulf states or Europe wouldn't get into the top 100. Add that Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines have low per-install costs, so the same budget buys the top spot here. Once in the top 20, the chart itself brings in some organic traffic from people who tap it while browsing, though the exact share can't be separated out.

There's almost no social-media trace: searching 'Yolo Pro VPN' on TikTok turns up no relevant videos, X has 0 posts in the last 30 days, and the web has only auto-indexed APK download sites. The package name isn't in public ad libraries, but those libraries have incomplete coverage, so not finding it doesn't mean no ads were run. The most likely channels are Google's own app-promotion ads, or pay-per-install affiliates such as offerwalls and incentivized download networks (inference).

### Where the money comes from

The app is free, the store labels it 'contains ads,' and there are no in-app purchases; it relies entirely on ads. VPNs naturally suit ads: users open them daily, and there are pauses of several seconds before and after connecting, so app-open, interstitial, and rewarded-video ads all fit. In a market like Mexico, the math works as long as the ad revenue a user generates during the retention window exceeds the few cents it cost to acquire them.

Some templated apps in this category also integrate traffic-monetization SDKs that resell users' spare bandwidth to proxy operators. Whether Yolo Pro does is unverified.

This account's playbook is roughly: one account holds several apps built from the same template; whichever one pays back fastest gets more budget. When one is delisted or reported, switch accounts and package names and republish. The earlier generations with 1M+ installs no longer appear on the developer page, which fits this pattern.

### Who it's competing with

It's a copycat itself, and among this wave it's a small one.

| Competitors | Launched | Scale (installs, 11-06) | How it differs from the others |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbo VPN | 2016 | 536M | Long-running leader, with brand and ratings built up |
| VPN - Super Unlimited Proxy | 2020 | #83 on Mexico's Tools chart, 259M | Also free with ads, but several orders of magnitude bigger |
| Proton VPN | 2019 | 137M | A real privacy brand with paid memberships |
| Rapid Mesh VPN | 2026-10-14 | 616k, +607k in 7 days | Template clones from the same week, running 7× its volume |
| Sonic VPN / Veyra VPN | 10-19 / 10-22 | 449k / 429k | Same approach, mainly targeting Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Turkey |
| Osprey VPN / Ant VPN | 10-14 | 254k / 154k | Ant VPN also targets Mexico, ranked #65 |

The package names of these newcomers are mostly random letter strings (e.g. com.zephyr.asdfg.zxcvb), a clear sign of bulk publishing. Since August, dozens of new apps with VPN in the name or description have appeared, with installs ranging from 100K to 3M. Functionally, Yolo Pro is no different from them: node switching, IP lookup, speed test, Wi-Fi info, all built into the template.

### If it were you

**In one line** : C. This is not a product opportunity. It is an ad-arbitrage business that many studios have turned into an assembly line. Copy it and you are the seventh or eighth clone this week. What is worth taking away is its method for picking markets.

**Who it suits** : teams already doing paid acquisition for utility apps, with ad monetization and ad accounts ready, who accept account bans and re-registration. For them there is nothing new here, just another country to test.

**Who it doesn't suit** : indie devs who want a product that keeps users long term; people without an ad budget or payback modeling; anyone unwilling to deal with Google Play's VPN-specific policies and account risk.

**How to do it** : if you must build a VPN, don't make a ninth identical template. Do the part none of them do: a real privacy policy, a stable connection that earns ratings, and a specific use case (for example, watching a particular streaming service from Mexico, or saving data in Nigeria). A better use of the method is applying market selection to your own category: each day, count how many same-category apps sit in the top 200 of each country's chart, and enter countries with few competitors and cheap installs first. The bar to chart there may be an order of magnitude lower than in popular countries.

**How to acquire users** : set up Google App Campaigns per country. Start with small budgets in low-competition countries like Mexico, Argentina, the Philippines and Nigeria, and measure the cost per install and the 7-day ad payback. Scale up where it pays back, and stop the same day where it doesn't.

**When the window closes** : Mexico's Tools chart currently has only 9 VPNs, but by mid-to-late October at least two clones (Yolo Pro, Ant VPN) had already moved in. Gaps like this usually last a month or two, so it would be surprising if nobody had filled it by year end.

**Signs you've misread it** : ① Yolo Pro's installs keep climbing organically and users start leaving ratings within weeks of stopping paid acquisition. That would mean Mexico has real organic demand for free VPNs and is worth building a good product for. ② Conversely, if VPNs in Mexico's top 200 tools chart go from 9 to 20 or 30 within a month, the window has already closed. ③ Google Play bulk-removes this batch of same-template VPNs, which would mean the account cost of this path now exceeds ad revenue.

--- Data and sources: Google Play install counts and country charts (third-party estimates, 10-31 to 11-06); Google Play listing and developer page (11-06); yolopro.top privacy policy; company registry (Shaanxi Daqin Industrial Co., Ltd.); third-party app directory listings for the developer's past apps (search snippets, not verified one by one); TikTok and X searches (11-06). Anything marked "inferred" or "unverified" is an inference or could not be confirmed.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yolo.perper)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turbo VPN | Android | 2016 | 536M installs | Long-running leader, with brand and ratings built up. Yolo Pro has the same features, just a new skin. |
| VPN - Super Unlimited Proxy | Android | 2020 | 259M installs, #83 on Mexico's TOOLS chart | Also free VPN with ads, at a scale several orders of magnitude larger. Yolo Pro is pushing up the charts with new packages. |
| Proton VPN | Android | 2019 | 137M installs | A real privacy brand with paid memberships. Yolo Pro has no brand and relies only on ads. |
| Rapid Mesh VPN / Sonic VPN / Veyra VPN | Android | 2026-10-14 to 10-22 | 43–620k installs | Same-week template clones using the same playbook, but these target Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Turkey, and their volume is larger. |
| Ant VPN | Android | 2026-10-14 | 154K installs, #65 on Mexico's TOOLS chart | A similar clone also targeting Mexico, ranked below Yolo Pro |
| Sweety VPN / CloudTunnel / EchoSecure / GlobeGuard (same developer) | Android | 2025–2026 | Sweety 10K+, CloudTunnel 5K+; EchoSecure and GlobeGuard each 1M+ (no longer on the developer page) | Same template with a new skin, identical descriptions word for word |

Where users come from

- Inferred **concentrated paid acquisition or incentivized installs (Google UAC or offer walls, speculated)** : installs jump in steps, with a gap of 0 days in between; 80K installs with 0 ratings; ranking climbs steadily each day

- **Confirmed** **market selection: Mexico primarily, Nigeria, the Philippines and Argentina secondarily** : Mexico's top 200 free TOOLS apps include only 9 VPNs; UAE 53, Saudi Arabia 49 (chart_rank 2026-11-06); Yolo Pro ranks #12 in Mexico

- Inferred **organic traffic from charts and store search** : once inside Mexico's top 20 TOOLS, chart exposure follows; the volume can't be separated out

- Inferred **social media, creators, Meta/TikTok/Google ad libraries** : TikHub and x-radar have no content; none of the three ad libraries show this package (these libraries only track a list of products)

## Why Yolo Pro (com.yolo.perper) got traction

> In one line: this isn't a VPN that succeeded on its product. It's another clone from a Xi'an shell company that uses the same "free VPN + ad monetization" template to publish in bulk. Its installs rise in steps and it has no ratings yet, which suggests concentrated paid acquisition (or incentivized installs) pushed into markets like Mexico, where CPIs are cheap and VPN competition is thin, lifting it up a small category chart. Its differentiation is close to zero; what got it here was market selection and ad spend.

### 1. Core metrics (from our googleplay database, 2026-11-06)

- The developer account is Daafittour. The legal entity shown in the store is **Shaanxi Daqin Industrial Co., Ltd.** , address: FED Innovation Center, Building A, Longteng Semiconductor Industrial Park, Fengcheng 5th Road, Mingguang Road, Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, 605. Email: daafitourapp@gmail.com. Phone: a Hong Kong number +852 (source: Google Play listing, "About the developer", scraped 2026-11-06). Company registry records show the company was founded in 2010 with a registered capital of 50M, and its main business is **wholesale** (sources: qcc.com, daqinshiye.top). An old wholesale company publishing VPNs suggests the developer account was borrowed or bought.

- The official site yolopro.top is a single privacy policy page. The root domain returns an Alibaba Cloud OSS AccessDenied error, meaning the static page is hosted on Alibaba Cloud OSS. The privacy policy's "last updated" date is 2025-10-22, but the app was published in 2026-10-21, so the dates don't match. It was likely copied straight from the template.

- Free, labeled "Contains ads" in the store, with no in-app purchases (app_snap: offers_iap=False, ad_supported=True). Version 1.0.2, with a one-line changelog: "bug fix".

- **Install curve** (app_snap / app_day): 10-31 4,449 → 11-01 4,449 → 11-02 38,668 (+34,219) → 11-03 57,896 (+19,228) → 11-04 and 11-05 flat → 11-06 81,895 (+23,999). AppstoreSpy's estimated curve matches, with about 36K installs on 11-03 alone.

- **Rating count has been NULL the whole time** : 80K+ installs, with not a single rating or review (googleplay database; the Play page shows no rating block either).

- **Charts** (chart_rank): Mexico TOOLS free chart 10-31 #197 → 11-01 #86 → 11-02 #60 → 11-03 #47 → 11-04 #30 → 11-05 #22 → 11-06 #12. From 11-05 it entered Mexico's overall app chart (11-06 #163). From 11-03 it also entered the TOOLS charts in Nigeria, the Philippines, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia (ranks 78–198).

### 2. Competitors

It is a "one-tap connect free VPN", one of the most crowded categories on Google Play.

- **Long-running leaders** : Turbo VPN (536M installs, on the market since 2016), SuperVPN (395M, 2014), VPN - Super Unlimited Proxy (259M, 2020, currently #83 on Mexico's TOOLS chart), Secure VPN (314M), Proton VPN (137M, #155 in Mexico), and paid brands like NordVPN and ExpressVPN (figures from the googleplay database app_profile, 2026-11-06).

- **Same-week clones** (googleplay database, 2026-11-06): Rapid Mesh VPN (com.zephyr.asdfg.zxcvb, published 10-14, 616K installs, +607K in 7 days), Sonic VPN (com.ffieus.grmf.elfg, 10-19.4M), Veyra VPN (com.dfgr.vsgmlf.emlvfdf, 10-22.4M), Osprey VPN (com.fekgt.rgjlsf.ejlgv, 10-14.3M), Ant VPN (com.securebridge.ant, 10-14.2M, #65 in Mexico's TOOLS chart), ShadowPass VPN (10-1.78M). Most of these package names are random letter strings, a clear sign of bulk publishing. Since 2026-08, the library lists dozens of new apps with VPN in the name or description, with installs ranging from 100K to 3M.

- **Sibling apps from the same developer** : Sweety VPN (com.sweety.vpn, 10K+, last updated 2026-09-27) and CloudTunnel (com.cloudtunnel.muum, 5K+, last updated 2026-10-20), with descriptions identical to Yolo Pro's. AppBrain and Google search results show this account also previously had EchoSecure (com.echosecure.slient, 1M+, 4.5 stars, 1.09K ratings), GlobeGuard (com.globeguard.vpnnet, 1M+) and Fly Freely (com.flyer.count.freedom, 50K+, 2026-04). Only Yolo Pro, Sweety VPN and CloudTunnel remain on the developer page. **Unverified** whether the others were removed or hidden. An AppBrain search snippet says the account has "about 6M installs" in total.

- Big-company offerings: Google One VPN has been discontinued. Samsung and Xiaomi system software includes a built-in "secure Wi-Fi" feature, but it doesn't reach this user base.

Compared with these rivals, Yolo Pro has no functional difference: node switching, IP lookup, speed test and Wi-Fi info are standard features of this kind of template.

### 3. Growth tactics: where users come from

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| Concentrated paid acquisition or incentivized installs (speculated to be Google App Campaigns, or offer walls / incentive networks) | Installs come in steps: +34K one day, then 0 over two days, then +24K another day. 80K installs with not a single rating is almost impossible for real organic users. The ranking climbs steadily each day, as if budget is being poured in batches. | Speculated, no creatives directly observed |
| Market selection: Mexico primarily, Nigeria, the Philippines and Argentina secondarily | VPN count in the top 200 free TOOLS apps on the day: Mexico has only 9, UAE 53, Saudi Arabia 49, Netherlands 45, Germany 45 (chart_rank 2026-11-06). Mexico, Nigeria and the Philippines have low CPIs and thin VPN competition, so a modest budget can get into the top 20. | Yes (chart data) |
| Organic traffic from store search and charts | Once inside Mexico's top 20 TOOLS, some chart traffic follows, but the volume can't be separated out | guessing |
| Meta / TikTok / Google ad libraries | Our metaads, tiktokads and googleads libraries show no results for this package, nor for Shaanxi Daqin Industrial. These libraries only track listed products, so a miss doesn't mean no ads were run. | No (not tracked) |
| Social media and creators | A TikTok search for "Yolo Pro VPN" returns no related videos (TikHub). X has 30 posts in the last 0 days (x-radar). On the web there are only auto-generated aggregator pages such as AppBrain. | No |

**How the money comes back** : the app is free, no subscription, ads only. VPN apps have a useful pattern: users open them every day and there are pauses before and after connecting, so you can run banner, interstitial and rewarded-video ads. In a low-CPI market like Mexico, if ad revenue per user covers the few cents of acquisition cost, you make money. Some clones of this template also plug in traffic monetization or proxy SDKs that sell users' bandwidth; whether this app does is **unverified** . The templated playbook is: one account, several apps, scale whichever one's ROI works, and when one gets pulled or reported, switch accounts and package names (a sibling app with 1M+ installs has already disappeared from the developer page, which fits this pattern).

### 4. Why it took off

1. **Bought traffic** : stepped install growth and zero ratings both point to paid or incentivized traffic, not word of mouth.

2. **Right market** : in Mexico's TOOLS chart there are few VPNs and CPI is cheap, so 80k installs was enough to reach #12. In the Gulf states or Europe, that volume wouldn't get into the top 100.

3. **Mature template, easy to copy at scale** : earlier skins from the same legal entity reached 1M+ (EchoSecure, GlobeGuard), which suggests they've already run the "template VPN + ad monetization + re-skin and relist" loop. This one is just the latest reskin.

4. **The whole category is ramping up together** : in mid-to-late October, a batch of template VPNs (Rapid Mesh, Sonic, Veyra, Osprey, Ant VPN) pushed up the charts together. Yolo Pro was on the small side of that wave.

### 5. Differentiation

Nothing. Features, listing copy and privacy policy are all template: sibling apps have word-for-word identical descriptions, and the privacy policy dates don't line up. It didn't perform because of differentiation; it performed because of ad spend and market selection.

### 6. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: **almost nobody knows about it** . No TrustMRR listing, no press coverage, no discussion on X or TikTok, and the only web presence is auto-indexed APK sites.

- Copycat: it is itself a copycat. The same playbook produced at least 5–6 similar apps the same week, and they are bigger than this one.

### 7. What to borrow

- Use the number of competitors on each country's category chart as a filter for market selection: the bar to break into the top 20 in the same category is an order of magnitude lower in Mexico, Argentina and the Philippines than in the Gulf or Europe.

- Run several apps on the same template from one account as A/B tests, and add budget to whichever one works.

- But this playbook runs into policy red lines: Play has specific rules for VPN apps, and re-skinning and non-genuine privacy policies carry delisting and account-ban risk. What's valuable is the market and acquisition judgment, not this product.

### 8. Still unclear

- Which acquisition channel was used (Google UAC, offerwalls or another network) — no creatives were observed.

- The ad monetization eCPM, and whether bandwidth or traffic SDKs are included.

- Whether EchoSecure and GlobeGuard were delisted or moved to other accounts.

- How many users stay after paid acquisition stops: it's rated 0 now, and the next thing to watch is whether ratings come in and whether installs fall back.

### Sources

- googleplay library (agent-im server): app, app_snap, app_day, app_day_ext (AppstoreSpy estimates), chart_rank, app_profile, 2026-10-31 to 2026-11-06

- metaads, tiktokads, googleads libraries: package name not found (2026-11-06)

- Google Play listing: [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yolo.perper](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yolo.perper); developer page: [play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Daafittour](https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Daafittour); Sweety VPN and CloudTunnel listing pages

- Privacy policy: [yolopro.top/privacy.html](https://yolopro.top/privacy.html)

- AppBrain: [www.appbrain.com/dev/Daafittour/](https://www.appbrain.com/dev/Daafittour/) (search snippet); EchoSecure's Play page (search snippet, 1M+ installs, 1.09K reviews); Fly Freely on apkpure

- Qichacha: [m.qcc.com/firm/6c4ec5b80fbe0d9064565b234f1970d6.html](https://m.qcc.com/firm/6c4ec5b80fbe0d9064565b234f1970d6.html) (Shaanxi Daqin Industrial Co., Ltd., founded 2010, main business wholesale)

- TikHub (TikTok search) and x-radar: no related content

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.