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The New Internet

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517 points ingve | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | 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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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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1. 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.