alt Hacker News> Sounds a bit like a fancier ngrok.
Well, yes and no.
You can use it like ngrok, and I'm sure you could configure wireguard and ngrok to give you something similar to what Tailscale does, but Tailscale does it out of the box, with polished and well built client and server apps.
I'm no infra guy, I'm just a former front-end eng, but it gives me the confidence to expose media centres and file servers etc to "the wild" without it being public.
Using Jellyfin to watch content from my home server on my iPad while I'm away from home is as "easy" as Disney or Netflix with Tailscale, just installed the clients and servers and .. voila?
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It's pretty handy to setup an exit node on your home network so that when you go abroad you can still watch your streaming services too!
More importantly you can use it to access your bank or other services which often block non-US IPs. It's saved me a few times in the last year or two.
I was an infra guy early in my career, and I'm still savvy, and I still prefer using Tailscale. It's very polished and reliable.
But personally, I'm past the point of wanting to fiddle with things like this and would much prefer them to just work out of the box.. so I can fiddle with the things I wanted to, and not end up down a (personally) unenjoyable rabbit hole.
No judgment on people who do enjoy it, though! I used to, and maybe I will again at some point.