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Wonderful project. Some stupid questions: - Will I be able to access the apps from outside the dashboard (regular url)? - Is there a paid support version for

by bliti 11y ago

Wonderful project. Some stupid questions: - Will I be able to access the apps from outside the dashboard (regular url)? - Is there a paid support version for self hosting? - Any quick tutorial for contributors? - Where do I sign up for updates?

kentonv 11y ago
> - Will I be able to access the apps from outside the dashboard (regular url)? Sometimes. Technically, a Sandstorm app can publish content to a domain outside of the shell (as Ghost, Wordpress, and Hacker CMS -- blogging apps -- do). However, in general, this is not the way that Sandstorm is intended to be used, and not a use case we intend to focus much effort on. Apps on Sandstorm generally remove their own code for login, sharing, file management, user management, etc., and instead integrate with Sandstorm's facilities for all these things (apps written explicitly for Sandstorm never write all that code in the first place!). This has a lot of huge advantages in terms of usability and security when the app is running inside the shell, but it generally means the app is no longer suitable for running outside the shell. Also worth noting is that running "webscale" apps is explicitly not a goal of ours. Lots of infrastructure targets the "I need to run 1 app on 1000 machines" SaaS use case, but we're aiming at the "I need to run 100 apps on one machine (or a small number of machines)" personal/business-internal use case. > - Is there a paid support version for self hosting? We haven't officially reached that point yet... but if this is something you're interested in, please drop us a line (sales@). :) > - Any quick tutorial for contributors? https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Get-Involved https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Get-Involved (possibly a bit stale) https://docs.sandstorm.io/ https://docs.sandstorm.io/ (pretty new!) > - Where do I sign up for updates? There's a box to join our email list in the front page banner: https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/
- bliti 11y ago
  Thank you. The technical explanation was very helpful.

by bliti 11y ago

kentonv 11y ago

> - Will I be able to access the apps from outside the dashboard (regular url)? Sometimes. Technically, a Sandstorm app can publish content to a domain outside of the shell (as Ghost, Wordpress, and Hacker CMS -- blogging apps -- do). However, in general, this is not the way that Sandstorm is intended to be used, and not a use case we intend to focus much effort on. Apps on Sandstorm generally remove their own code for login, sharing, file management, user management, etc., and instead integrate with Sandstorm's facilities for all these things (apps written explicitly for Sandstorm never write all that code in the first place!). This has a lot of huge advantages in terms of usability and security when the app is running inside the shell, but it generally means the app is no longer suitable for running outside the shell. Also worth noting is that running "webscale" apps is explicitly not a goal of ours. Lots of infrastructure targets the "I need to run 1 app on 1000 machines" SaaS use case, but we're aiming at the "I need to run 100 apps on one machine (or a small number of machines)" personal/business-internal use case. > - Is there a paid support version for self hosting? We haven't officially reached that point yet... but if this is something you're interested in, please drop us a line (sales@). :) > - Any quick tutorial for contributors? https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Get-Involved https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Get-Involved (possibly a bit stale) https://docs.sandstorm.io/ https://docs.sandstorm.io/ (pretty new!) > - Where do I sign up for updates? There's a box to join our email list in the front page banner: https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/

bliti 11y ago
Thank you. The technical explanation was very helpful.