21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Tailscale first-hand: 8 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using Tailscale for many years now and they have a terrific product.”
endorse · personal · mcsniff · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It can even join your Tailscale network and act as an exit node, giving you a quick & dirty VPN into your home network!”
endorse · personal · danaris · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my experiences with poorly supported Tailscale (and abismal performance using Samba over Tailscale)”
regret · personal · teekert · 2025-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Also runs tailscale. Having my entire media library anywhere I have one of my devices is pretty sweet and setup was stupid easy.”
endorse · personal · efxhoy · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I set up Tailscale (Headscale) and don't really have any issues now from CGNAT.”
endorse · personal · freedomben · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Tailscale 2021-ish but it seemed a bit early, couldn't log out yet (run as a service).”
regret · personal · password4321 · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“backing up over SSH (works great in combination with Tailscale and can be interrupted/resumed)”
endorse · personal · siraben · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Really cool to see the same tools being applied to improve the developer experience as well!”
endorse · production · bsnnkv · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But goddamn if that spiffy web interface is not just the bees knees. I relented and put in a Google account”
endorse · personal · jyrkesh · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Tailscale since the beginning personally, and have been trying to sell it internally at work”
endorse · production · 3 yr · zikduruqe · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use multiple Macs with Tailscale connections and the Herdr app makes jumping around to different projects and different machines easier.”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have its local server and an instance of the alpha linux server on my cloud based dev box, hooked up via my tailnet.”
neutral · personal · CrompyBlompers · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it only accepts connections from my devices over tailscale, and it has all its own credentials”
neutral · personal · nameless912 · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Plex (connecting via Tailscale)”
neutral · personal · bitvoid · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also wanted an excuse to deploy Tailscale Funnel in production, which I used for the backend.”
neutral · production · bojangleslover · 2024-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Connect to the home network from anywhere”
neutral · personal · seanlane · 2023-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think we switched to tailscale (I don't look after that side)”
neutral · production · wilhil · 2023-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running tailscale (which sends a packet to an unroutable UDP destination nonstop”
neutral · production · berkle4455 · 2023-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“set DOCKER_HOST=ssh://<tailscale_ip> on my laptop.”
neutral · personal · dijit · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?