tailscale/tailcat
- Total stars
- 8,713
- Today
- +7since 00:13 UTC
More actions
like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
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About the project
A CLI and Go library that works like netcat over Tailscale's data plane (magicsock/WireGuard) without the control plane: one side listens and prints a short address, the other connects to it, with connection metadata exchanged out of band. Needs no Tailscale account or root access.
Useful for
- Pipe stdin/stdout between two machines over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel without setting up Tailscale
- Expose a local TCP port (e.g. 8080) to a remote machine with tailcat serve and tailcat forward
- Open a web server behind a tailcat server in a browser via tailcat browse
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 2, 2026, 21:46 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:13–21:38: 8706 → 8713 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +8 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @killvxk (1,632 followers), @keysemails (226 followers), @tsingke (208 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 233. +188% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 26, 2026
- 8
- October 27, 2026
- 91
- October 28, 2026
- 80
- October 29, 2026
- 29
- October 30, 2026
- 11
- October 31, 2026
- 4
- November 1, 2026
- 10
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 91 · October 27, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 2, 2026, 21:46 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 8,713
- Today
- +7 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:13–21:38 UTC, ≈ 8 by evening
- Forks
- 397
- Issues and pull requests
- 158
- Watchers
- 26
- Language
- Go
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Latest release
- v0.7.0 · September 20, 2026
- Created
- October 29, 2024
- Last push
- October 7, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 30, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +50 stars
- October 29, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #9, +60 stars
- October 5, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +53 stars
- October 4, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +63 stars
- October 3, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +79 stars
- October 2, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +95 stars
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #8, +165 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +165 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +144 stars
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