Tailscale Funnel
Hacker ApprovedTunnel service in Networking & smart home
Lets you expose a service on your tailnet to the public internet with simple setup, free HTTPS endpoints and stable performance. Main caveat: it is public only, with no auth.
Lets you expose a service on your tailnet to the public internet with simple setup, free HTTPS endpoints and stable performance. Main caveat: it is public only, with no auth.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 20
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 20 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy to set up
“dead simple and with tailscale it's coming from kind of a trusted entity”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Tunnl.gg” “Tailscale Funnel is easy and stable.”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?” Works well and stable
“Tailscale funnel works well but you can only have 1 per Tailscale instance (1 per machine) at the https endpoint”
Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “Cloudflare Quick Tunnels” “Tailscale Funnel is easy and stable.”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?” Useful for homelab services
“That's one of the main features that I use for some home assistant instances.”
Comment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)” “Very useful for homelabers.”
Comment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Tunnel | 99 | 47 | 68% | 12 | 1 yr4 owners | Approved |
| Tailscale FunnelThis page | 20 | 4 | 83% | 10 | — | Approved |
What people said
21 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Tailscale Funnel is easy and stable.”
“I have multiple funnels running at once.”
“As long as your apps don't need to live at the root path you can have as many as you like.”
“Tailscale funnel works well but you can only have 1 per Tailscale instance (1 per machine) at the https endpoint”
“a somewhat stable, yet free arbitrary DNS and free reverse proxy termination”
“It's limited to 3 ports. It requires setup for each device. It's not peer-to-peer. It has throttled bandwidth.”
“They don't need to be https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel”
“It helped me discover that there was 'no common conversion tracking detected' on my website”
“tailscale has a feature called "funnel" that will let others connect to a service running on your tailnet”
“I was hoping that Peer Relays would help alleviate some restrictions with tailwind funnel”
“a junior developer might find Tailscale Funnel very tedious to setup”
“Tailscale IMHO failing in educating people about this danger.”
“Very useful for homelabers.”
“That's one of the main features that I use for some home assistant instances.”
“Which is nice, but still a beta feature.”
“Tailscale Funnel, but might need a paid account”
“If you want to do this another way, Tailscale funnel can send public traffic into your tailnet”
“the downside that you are announcing your service to the world through the certificate transparency logs”
“dead simple and with tailscale it's coming from kind of a trusted entity”
“it's public only. No auth.”
“P2P with relay fallback to be highly desirable over always relaying traffic through a third party”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.