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A big competitor of theirs, tailscale, also does well here. I think the lesson is partly that the typical somewhat-deranged writing style/topics are popular. More companies should try to write engaging blog posts and be more open if they want to be successful. It seems to have paid off for them as I would guess at least some of the people trying it out are learning about fly.io from HN.
> A big competitor of theirs, tailscale, also does well here. How does a container/database as a service platform competes with a Wireguard as a service platform?
I’m clearly wrong here. I’m not sure why I thought what I wrote above.