That amazement is due to one of our largest and least realized critical mistakes as a civilization: no where are people taught how to effectively communicate. We have entire Colleges of Communications at every university, and what do they teach? How to execute mass manipulation, not how to convey understanding, not how to manage disagreements. These are not "mistakes" either, this distinct lack of teaching real communications is how society is maintained manipulative. And the worst part, many of you will read this and not understand, because you've not been taught the communications insights to grasp this message.

It's primarily an open source library, not a product.

I don't understand why HN seems so concerned about nailing down its "value proposition".

On the other hand, parent commenter's comparison is based on another product. How good it is if people don't know what Tailscale is? There was a time I did not understand Tailscale and its value.

Agreed, I went through the blog post and a few other pages trying to figure out what the benefit of Iroh is since I have never heard of it... was struggling lol.

Why? Because if you need to serve ads that are being blacklisted by DNS, you need something like this.

> You explained the value proposition so well.

No, it didn't. It shifted the burden of learning the value proposition to first knowing what Tailscale is exactly. And a response of "Duh, that's obvious", perhaps indicates being too deep in the guts of tailscale systems.