The real raison d'etre with these new wave of commercial NoVPN products like this one and Tailscale is to build a high margin SaaS business without really having the infrastructure liabilities of SaaS businesses. The problem with these kinds of products is that they are, from a security perspective, a disaster. Not only your entire network is compromised if they get hacked or if even they want to get into your network whenever they want which is an unlimited power I've never seen in any SaaS product, also your network becomes prisoner to their services, so if their services go down for any reason, you and everyone in your network will be unable to connect to your network even if it's perfectly working.
At least Twingate doesn't try to do sanke oil advertising like Tailscale and sells itself as an "open source" (go have a look at their Github open issues, it's a complete disaster) while it is not. Also the other thing is, if you have a relatively small company of 50 people you will end up actually paying MORE than those seemingly overpriced yet established products like Zscaler ZPA.
For me, the only serious alternative to expensive products like ZPA are Zerotier and Pritunl. They are as transparent as open source yet still viable as businesses without being greedy or captive to VC money to extract every single dollar out of you.
Usually job listing, SEO, web crawling, VPN and many other very low-barrier-to-entry companies are founded and run by the worst and most contemptible of all people. Dude, it's like a pattern!
Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.
I am sure I wouldn't use a service that can literally get into each and every device of my private network if they want to or worse, they get hacked. Each and every device in the network automatically accepts whatever public keys and endpoints that get advertised by their servers and automatically connect to them. It's not only an overpriced mediocre product. From a security perspective, it's the most dangerous SaaS service I've ever seen.
My biggest fear is once this company gets tied to WireGuard and the security disasters come out, WireGuard's fate will be tied to a mediocre commercial product that put money above engineering decisions.
Again, here comes the self-entitled "This is outrageous and it is a closed source license! Why shouldn't I make money off work that took blood and tears and millions of dollars of many people while they, the actual authors struggle to have dinner at the table from their own work?" comment on HN whenever a company relicenses their FOSS project. This kind of self-entitlement makes startups think twice before going open source in the first place.
OSI FOSS licenses do not protect neither the author nor the work. The author can intend the work to be _free_ while others can simply rebrand it and sell it as a closed source product is if it were their own while the author themselves cannot complain or even know. The source-available license is the only way for the author to keep the work somewhat under control from competitors and quick buck parasites.
Despite Rust is way cleanly built, superior in almost every aspect than Go can ever dream to be, I doubt it will really take off really in the cloud business until there is:
1. official gRPC support
2. official Kubernetes API client support
3. official cloud vendor SDK support (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc...)
4. Faster build times, it's frustrating to wait for cloud CI/CD to finish in 40 minutes for a single release build
Golang didn't succeed because it is simple or powerful or any of the, I apologize, nonsense your hear from the Gophers. Golang succeeded because it was the only available relevant option and alternative to the aging Python and Java when the cloud took off in the early 2010s.
Keybase went from ranking 30,000 to 65,000 in 3 months. What happened here? It seems like Keybase has been falling in traffic already for the past 3 months and it's reputations has been tarnished in HN for months now.
I've already been using VSCode remote over SSH on cheap yet powerful Hetzner instances. You can do this on any cloud vendor and you can, if you want, put your home directory as a volume and resize up and down your machine as you want.
No, I haven't but your service is making it literally impossible to browse with Firefox and Tor (understandably because you're here to make money from your customers labeling people like me as a threat in their dashboards not to enable people to actually browse easily). Even reCAPTCHA doesn't do that.
At least Twingate doesn't try to do sanke oil advertising like Tailscale and sells itself as an "open source" (go have a look at their Github open issues, it's a complete disaster) while it is not. Also the other thing is, if you have a relatively small company of 50 people you will end up actually paying MORE than those seemingly overpriced yet established products like Zscaler ZPA.
For me, the only serious alternative to expensive products like ZPA are Zerotier and Pritunl. They are as transparent as open source yet still viable as businesses without being greedy or captive to VC money to extract every single dollar out of you.