I will present a general result which allows to express the multipoint distribution of the particle locations in the totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP) and several related processes, for general initial conditions, in terms of the Fredholm determinant of certain kernels involving the hitting time of a random walk to a curve defined by the initial data. This scheme generalizes an earlier result for the particular case of continuous time TASEP, which has been used to prove convergence of TASEP to the KPZ fixed point. The result covers processes in continuous and discrete time, with push and block dynamics, and with sequential and parallel update, as well as some extensions to processes with memory length larger than 1. Based on joint work with Konstantin Matetski.