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The New Internet

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517 points ingve | 5 comments | 26 Jul 24 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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imiric ◴[26 Jul 24 23:04 UTC] No.41083107[source]▶
I like Tailscale, but this reads as too self-aggrandizing.

You have a mesh VPN product with some value-added services on top of it. That's great, but this idea isn't novel or unique. Why should your solution be the "new internet" instead of any of the alternatives?

I wouldn't want to rely on a single company for all my internet infrastructure, anyway. So I'll stick with the traditional internet with all its complexity. Its major problems aren't technical but social, and no new technology will solve those.

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1. intelVISA ◴[27 Jul 24 03:02 UTC] No.41084176[source]▶
What's Tailscale's value prop? It's just a kludge together of various FOSS heavyweights..?
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2. compootr ◴[27 Jul 24 03:31 UTC] No.41084260[source]▶
precisely. Isn't every business that plus some custom stuff & employee time?

i.e., isn't some business is just a kludge of FOSS heavyweights, say for example, when they write an app in some open source language, deploy it on an open source OS with open source orchestration etc

I think Tailscale is a lot of foss software, with the utility that it lowers the barrier to entry massively

3. pdimitar ◴[27 Jul 24 11:12 UTC] No.41085782[source]▶
Oh, you mean like most IT businesses nowadays?
4. p_l ◴[27 Jul 24 13:53 UTC] No.41086619[source]▶
Tailscale value proposition is that it just works, all the parts you normally have to assemble yourself already built and connected, with value add in terms of ACL support publicly and things like funnel (exposing services over HTTPS on nodes that don't have a public IP) and taildrop (easy file sharing).

Also various integrations, like tailscale k8s operator.

5. 9dev ◴[28 Jul 24 08:34 UTC] No.41091988[source]▶
Oh please. The value proposition is that they spend time so you don’t have to, on something that isn’t your actual product. If you don’t understand why that provides value to other businesses, you probably don’t run one?