Great product. One of the very few that "just works" and "gets better all the time".
Tailscale raises $100M
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Re: Tailscale raises $100M
#12For anyone else who wonders wtf tailscale is:
> Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.
It seems to take care of key distribution, nat-traversal, authentication etc etc
Neat! No sure how that is 'fixing internet' exactly, but really cool anyway
Re: Tailscale raises $100M
#13> We’re here to fix the Internet
That's such a broad "mission statement" that I wonder if it's effective at all. I mean, what SaaS wouldn't say that they fix something with the internet? That's to whole reason for online businesses solving one or another problem.
How could that statement help them guide their implementations of various solutions?
Re: Tailscale raises $100M
#14I read almost all of TFA (started to jump paragraphs near the end) and still couldn't figure out what it was or did, even after being told, repeatedly, that they "make easy things easy".
Apparently, it's a VPN.
Re: Tailscale raises $100M
#15Unfortunately despite claiming that they would, they've never allowed their iOS application to allow configuration of the control server (every other client they have released does). Maybe some more funding will allow them to focus on the client quality.
Re: Tailscale raises $100M
#16With such a huge investment comes the obligation to eventually pay it back. Is this another one of my favourite tools going the way of Dropbox, 1Password and all other companies that were formed around what should be a platform feature, which took on way too large investment sums and were eventually forced to become the everything, losing sight of their core values? I sincerely hope not, but there's so much bad prece…
> should be a platform feature
OK, but it's not. Now what? Do we just live without until the platform overlords provide it, or does someone build it on top of the platform?
What even is the "platform", when my Android phone is connecting to my iPad and my Windows laptop and Linux desktop and Amazon cloud server?
$100M = ~$0.20 / computer user in US and western Europe (wealthy countries in connected software markets)
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#17We love Tailscale. Everyone employee has it, and we use it to provide access to dev, staging, and prod environments as well.
Fun little thing we did with it: nobody can access the prod network without requesting access via a Slack bot (powered by https://indent.com/). So somebody requests access, another authorized person approves it, and the Tailscale ACLs are updated for X minutes and then reset.
Access to secure environments is super low friction but more secure (with fantastic audit trails) than ever.
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#18This sounds just creepy that they are suggesting no more anonymity on the internet... as a "fix".
What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
From the website:
What if we all just had a static IP address, and a DNS name? …and the address migrated around the world with you? …and you could connect to any of your devices no matter where they were?
Does this not promote the destruction of anonymity on the Internet?
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#19> We’re here to fix the Internet That's such a broad "mission statement" that I wonder if it's effective at all. I mean, what SaaS wouldn't say that they fix something with the internet? That's to whole reason for online businesses solving one or another problem. How could that statement help them guide their implementations of various solutions?
I think the best way to get a feel for what that means is Remembering the LAN[0] and then just trying it out (really, it's easy) and deciding for yourself if they're living up to it. Or grep Twitter for "tailscale" -- all these nerds aren't astroturfing :)
(Disclosure: I'm a (small) investor via Latacora's sibling fund, Lagomorphic.)
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#20I know it was supposed to be a funny throwaway line, but I am irked by the "with $100 million you could interrupt the Super Bowl for 7 full minutes." That's not how sports advertising runs works. You are bidding on a limited amount of space determined by the game. I think there is also a non-linear cost.
Of course the NFL would never allow a 7 minute commercial break, although I do believe that the cost is linear. A 60 second commercial's cost is simply 2x 30 second commercials. There's no reason to do anything differently, since in the end it doesn't matter if that 60 seconds are filled by one or two commercials (aside from making the ad sales team's job slightly easier by having one less spot to fill).