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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 4 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.909s | source
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pilif ◴[04 May 22 13:42 UTC] No.31260250[source]▶
With 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 precedent.

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Lightbody ◴[04 May 22 13:48 UTC] No.31260351[source]▶
I haven't really felt like 1Password's product materially strayed from the original mission. If anything, I'm even more delighted with the team functionality, shared vaults, quick keyboard access in 1Password 8, etc.

I wouldn't put them in the Dropbox bucket.

Also, I think the value Tailscale provides is fairly unique and far from obviously a platform feature like file storage and perhaps even password management.

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xyzzy_plugh ◴[04 May 22 13:54 UTC] No.31260433[source]▶
Indeed, 1Password is practically a utility at this point, as far as I'm concerned. I really like the direction they're heading and they're solving some pretty tricky problems without compromising on security, predominantly in the enterprise domain. The experience is the same regardless of whether you're an enterprise user or a personal or family user. It's polished enough that my grandma can use it.
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alberth ◴[04 May 22 13:57 UTC] No.31260486[source]▶
> I really like the direction [1Password] is heading

I thought customers were complainingly loudly against their new direction of making 1Password an Electron app. Is that not the case?

Note: I'm not a 1Password customer.

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throwaway894345 ◴[04 May 22 14:04 UTC] No.31260579[source]▶
I heard some people complaining a bit for a moment when they made the transition, but that happens anytime anyone changes anything and doubly so when that change is Electron. But that faded quickly.
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1. mmcclure ◴[04 May 22 14:50 UTC] No.31261253[source]▶
I...don't think it's faded. I could totally be wrong here, but I don't think they'd actually made a transition yet; the complaining you're talking about was over the 1Password 8 beta. That actually just went GA this week, and people were still upset.

I get why they're doing it (or, at least, think I do), and I'm not angry enough to go get angry on Twitter, but I am going to avoid the upgrade for as long as I can. That's kind of a bummer to get there with a product you've historically really liked.

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2. throwaway894345 ◴[04 May 22 15:00 UTC] No.31261423[source]▶
Honestly I haven't noticed and I use 1Password on all of my devices every day. I heard some grumblings about 1Password changing to electron months ago and just assumed that they already made the transition. In whatever case, I haven't heard a peep until this thread. I don't like electron in theory and the industry should collectively come up with a solution that incentivizes app developers away from electron rather than hoping they swim against the current of incentive.
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3. skoskie ◴[04 May 22 15:39 UTC] No.31262019[source]▶
You might double check which version you’re on. Might still be on v7.

> the industry should collectively come up with a solution that incentivizes app developers away from electron rather than hoping they swim against the current of incentive.

They have the financial resources to build it in ~Rust but still chose electron. It’s a mind boggling decision.

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4. throwaway894345 ◴[04 May 22 16:24 UTC] No.31262610{3}[source]▶
> They have the financial resources to build it in ~Rust but still chose electron. It’s a mind boggling decision.

Respectfully, I think you may misunderstand the company’s mission.