Tailscale raises $100M

Tailscale is my favorite (product) discovery of 2022. I initially set it up to use as a VPN to get around a misbehaving corporate firewall and accidentally realized it solved a whole bunch of other problems I didn't realize I had. Usually a new product doesn't even live up to the intended use case and so TS is really anomalous IMHO in how good it is.

- SSH'ing into a raspberry pi I have at home that does random IoT stuff.

- Accessing servers on my local dev machine from other devices for testing (i.e. a Windows box or phone)

- Giving access to production bastion devices without publicly exposing anything to the internet.

And best of all I don't have to fiddle with the usual networking stuff. It just works. Kudos on the raise!

Non-disclaimer: I have no relation to anyone on the team. Tailscale is just a delight to use.

I've been using it since last summer to SSH to my pi too. Huge relief in terms of securing it. Easy to install and it just works. I'm not particularly savvy either.

My only complaint is that if you use it on your phone (iphone 11) and forget to turn it off it drains the battery like crazy.