[vinceguidry]

A much better answer to the question "why not just use Tailscale?" is that critical functionality only is available with cloud hosting, self-hosted headscale just doesn't offer a usable solution.

> If you want to release an app and have instances of your app be able to easily connect to each other, you could theoretically embeded Tailscale functionality into your app, but then the users of your app need Tailscale accounts, and your app is dependent on Tailscale.

Just use Wireguard directly like everyone else.