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Tailscale has raised $160M
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Re: Tailscale has raised $160M
#12Good. This lets them receive some of the value they’ve created (they should get paid!) and gives certainty they won’t go out of business. Which means more Tailscale now and in future!
If they turn evil (unlikely with the current folks there) they’ve written up / open sourced plenty of what got them to this point.
Don’t capture all the value you create. But you should try to capture some.
Re: Tailscale has raised $160M
#13so tailscale is selling out that was disappointing at least the current software is open source, so others can fork it before it closes down on itself and enshittifies.
Tailscale is a software company founded in 2019 that raised their series A in 2020, not a grassroots community project
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#14it is a nice that they're a bit embarrassed about it and spend much of the post explaining why they took more money.
overall, they still seem to have their heads screwed on straight and have an actual business model, that is also pretty fair - charge enterprises per seat to solve their network identity problems.
anyway, keep up the good work, Avery and co.
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#15Tailscale is a great. I think of it as a swiss army knife for easier routing and connectivity.
I use it in projects to stream internet / connectivity from my phone to the NVIDIA Jetson line, making my robotics projects easily accessible / debuggable:
https://github.com/burningion/bicyclist-defense-jetson?tab=r...
Re: Tailscale has raised $160M
#16Tailscale was invaluable for connecting my remote offices together. Long gone are the days of openvpn configs
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#17I don't probably use Tailscale to it's full potential but I love this tool. We have our small servers at our offices across the world and it has give us so much flexibility to access some of the files via shared drives or try out installing / testing stuff. Me and my wife also drop each other pictures of our kids using tailscale now.
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#18Off-topic, but it makes me laugh that companies will list their “investors”, “advisors”, etc. on their company page, but not the people working there.
That said, Tailscale is one of the products that just works.
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#19When I saw the new round, I was instantly worried about change in direction that will most likely come with this, and effectively drive away regular users from a tool that seems universally loved. Similar sentiment can be seen in the discussion from three years ago [1] when they raised $100M. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31259950
Try netbird which is an open-source alternative to free yourself from worries xD https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
I've always been on the outside looking in, so I've never used Tailscale or its open-source brethren.
Would this service be comparable to Headscale[0]?
Re: Tailscale has raised $160M
#20Even if it could mean Tailscale enshittifies eventually, this is probably a good thing for the ecosystem.
As one example,
the bigger they get, the more likely operating systems will build better APIs to support what they do (for example maybe Apple will provide a way to do mDNS over Tailscale), and those APIs can be used by all.
There are plenty of open source alternatives cropping up[0]. I'm curious to see what Tailscale can do with a lot of resources.
[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling?tab=readme...