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In the spirit of constructive feedback, spend the time and effort to record your product demonstrations in a more professional environment. Or generate a fake background at a minimum.
In the spirit of constructive feedback, spend the time and effort to record your product demonstrations in a more professional environment. Or generate a fake background at a minimum.
"What works well for HN [demo video] is short and direct, with zero production values. Skip any introductions and jump straight into showing your product doing what it does best. It should take only a few seconds before we see it in action, doing something cool. Voiceover is good, but no marketing slickness—no fancy logos or background music or anything like that!"
I can see how maybe this could be counter-grain for some enterprise products.
I see the difference though. Tailscale goes with "secure this and that." It appears to attract people who don't already use a VPN, while you compare it straight to a VPN, which may be more enterprise crowd.
I'm not sure what your exact market is, but for a young startup at the very least, Tailscale marketing and UX appears a lot nicer.
I'm a big fan of Tailscale but it's unfortunate that it's proprietary, so it's really nice to see an open source alternative. The commercial pricing also looks very reasonable. Wishing your product much success.
Not a comment on the actual product but did you use a specific template or stack on the app you show in the demo?
Love that you are using rust!
In the spirit of constructive feedback, spend the time and effort to record your product demonstrations in a more professional environment. Or generate a fake background at a minimum.
How does this compare with e.g. Tailscale?
One difference not listed is MDM support. https://www.firezone.dev/kb/deploy/clients#provision-with-md... just tells you where to find the app but there's no parameters for configuring Firezone via zero-touch.
It's also not clear if Gateways can serve as Exit Nodes for egress clients (like a traditional VPN).
Lastly, Firezone Clients support only DNS over UDP/53 at this time. DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS upstream servers are not supported yet.
I'm a big fan of Tailscale but it's unfortunate that it's proprietary, so it's really nice to see an open source alternative. The commercial pricing also looks very reasonable. Wishing your product much success.
Do you think purchasers within enterprises especially care if it's a proprietary or commercially-supported FOSS offering?