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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 1 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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newhouseb ◴[04 May 22 13:41 UTC] No.31260241[source]▶
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.

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1. planb ◴[04 May 22 18:11 UTC] No.31263894[source]▶
SSH'ing to a raspberry pi in my parent's basement where my beer is fermenting has been the killer use case for me. Their crappy IPS router does not allow port forwarding, but with Tailscale I can directly access the sensors. Only today I learned that I can even use Tailscale as an exit node (to the internet or the local network) and therefore use it like a normal VPN.