Tailscale has reached general availability
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Tailscale has reached general availability
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Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#2Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#3Very nice! Congratulations on launching, and looking forward to seeing your success in the coming years!
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#4Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
I expect their target audience (for revenue) are companies who need corporate SSO support.
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#5Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/
We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want to stay out of the username+password business; it's simply bad security practice.
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#6Looks really interesting! For my use case I'd really want that Android app, but other than that this looks solid.
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#7Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
Maybe you can look at Sign In with Apple, it works native and for websites too.
https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#8Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
Since it's mostly tech-savvy people here that want something else and I'm assuming it's an oauth process, perhaps github and/or gitlab?
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#9Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
I'd actually rather you have my username and password, since I use a password manager and every password is long and unique. I don't want to tie my Google/Apple/ account to my Tailscale account. This way I can also more easily keep track of which accounts I have since my password manager stores them all. So I will wait for email signup (which currently just subscribes me to a mailing list...)!
Re: Tailscale has reached general availability
#10I will get banned for this in a matter of minutes but I will say the truth to whoever think HN is fair. For the past 3 months, every, again EVERY post that was linked to Tailscale (not just the company domain but also the blog posts of the founders' websites), has gotten to the frontpage within minutes, with a full 100% hit rate. This cannot happen for any company, any project or anything else to be honest since there is a thread that gets posted every minute on average, and almost every thread, no matter how great it is, goes forgotten forever without a single upvote. This doesn't happen to even trillion dollar companies that are known by almost everybody so certainly this can't happen for a company of 5 people that was started only last year and hardly known by anybody. Nothing can get to HN's frontpage at a hit rate of 100% especially when you know this has been happening on almost a weekly basis since last December not to mention the daily promotion in comments on literally everything that has anything to do with WireGuard or even VPNs.
HN simply favors some founders who have good network over the rest of us. I know that organized upovting and astroturfing isn't uncommon here, but there has never been anything anywhere near that's being done by this company and its founders here. This is simply free advertising worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars for free simply because the founders "know people".
EDIT: Thank you HN for proving me right! This comment has 42 points as of now and it's buried in the bottom below almost every other comment. Still not a response from the founders who very coincidentally happen to exist literally during every time a post about their company gets submitted!