> Tailscale investor here. I can assure you we share the same vision.

Outside of say, Garry Tan and Leo Polovets, who could be considered regulars, it’s rare that an investor shows up in the HN comments. Hi!

Your comment is reassuring, but the reality is that other investors will look at their portfolio companies, review the competitive landscape, then decide that they no longer share the vision, in the not too distant future.

I have no reason to mistrust your vision or current intent, but I also have no reason to believe that you are stronger than the weight of $100M dollars.

The problem is that vision has a pretty poor track record when going head-to-head with incentives.

My use case is like many others' here: accessing a remote Raspberry Pi. Please do not start charging for this kind of simple setup ! If you want to charge for IoT-type stuff, add a new layer of added value on top of the current wonderful free service.

For those curious: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephruscio.

Seed investor in Tailscale since 2019.

You cannot do that. You might personally share a vision with somebody identifiable. But the vision you say you share is anyway not implemented.

Make the service usable without depending on some internet behemoth who might yank my authentication credentials anytime without notice, and we can talk.