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  1. TIPSIO · · focus · HN ↗
    My wife and I have a mobile group/shared bot system where we can make mini apps and collab.

    Anything from baby stuff, groceries, shopping, planning, wine tracker app, simple/fun/useful data things, etc…

    We have Tailscale on our phones and can instantly and privately see without deployment or anything crazy via our secure VPN.

    Think shared Claude Artifacts that don’t live @ Anthropic.

    Tried to first do this with Cloudflare Tunnels (because I love Cloudflare), but between the broken dashboard side of Zero Trust and nightmare of Warp… it was basically impossible to setup. I guess that’s all super enterprise, which seems to be very anti-Cloudflare philosophically to not be able to self do things.

    Will check out Quick Tunnels but I think it’s missing the bigger integration offerings Tailscale has/does still.

    1. theturtletalks · · focus · HN ↗
      Tailscale is truly a cheat code. I have a web app that I run locally to control terminals on my Mac. I access the website on my phone using the 100.xx IP address and can code on the go. No need for a Mac or iOS app.

      You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet. Be careful using Cloudflare tunnels because they are public and bots start poking around immediately.

      1. girvo · · focus · HN ↗
        I love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now
        1. eloisius · · focus · HN ↗
          I have the same experience and I once found a GitHub issue about it. I don’t think it sounded like they planned to fix it anytime soon. I just added the Tailscale toggle button to my phone’s quick control panel and turn it on whenever I want to check all my syncthing nodes or something. I keep meaning to see if I can script up something with Shortcuts to make it turn back off automatically.
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