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what is sandstorm?

by honksillet 7y ago

what is sandstorm?

ShorsHammer 7y ago
https://sandstorm.io/about https://sandstorm.io/about
lets-surf 7y ago
Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps
rflrob 7y ago
It’s not clear to me the extent to which developers should assume people will be coming from HN and have some background on their project for the uninitiated. This post is almost perfectly devoid of any hooks that might give people a hint of what it is, but on the other hand, for a “not dead yet” post, probably the people who will be most excited do in fact know what it is.
- setr 7y ago
  Given that this article does not exist alone, but rather within the context of the broader website, readily available by means of the ever-present header with links, I believe it is safe to assume that any reasonably intelligent but unknowing user can do the research on their own. Additionally, as long as the question "WTF IS THIS??" is not forbidden in the HN comments, even those lacking the domain knowledge, or a sufficiently useful description on the site itself or a useful Wikipedia page, I think the extent to assume is fairly low. That is, I think it's safe to assume the internet, and its users, exist, and that the reader is sufficiently intelligent to make use of the resources available to them, when writing a post to publish online, if it's not intentionally an introductory post
zweep 7y ago
It's the infrastructure for self-hosting web apps. So, on top of Sandstorm, you could get a Dropbox-like app, or a Google Docs-like app, or a Flickr-style app, hosted on a box that's in your living room or on your own server in a colo. So instead of uploading your photos to Flickr and sending Flickr links to your family, you would upload your photos to PicShare.StevesHomeComputer.com and send those links to your family, keeping all of your data in your control and not subject to Flickr shutting down one day. It makes sense for some services that are fundamentally user-fragmented (File backup/Evernote/Flickr) but less sense for things that require multiple users to be credentialed like social networking, since social networking structurally benefits from everyone being on the same service.

what is sandstorm?

ShorsHammer 7y ago

https://sandstorm.io/about https://sandstorm.io/about

lets-surf 7y ago

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps

rflrob 7y ago

It’s not clear to me the extent to which developers should assume people will be coming from HN and have some background on their project for the uninitiated. This post is almost perfectly devoid of any hooks that might give people a hint of what it is, but on the other hand, for a “not dead yet” post, probably the people who will be most excited do in fact know what it is.

setr 7y ago
Given that this article does not exist alone, but rather within the context of the broader website, readily available by means of the ever-present header with links, I believe it is safe to assume that any reasonably intelligent but unknowing user can do the research on their own. Additionally, as long as the question "WTF IS THIS??" is not forbidden in the HN comments, even those lacking the domain knowledge, or a sufficiently useful description on the site itself or a useful Wikipedia page, I think the extent to assume is fairly low. That is, I think it's safe to assume the internet, and its users, exist, and that the reader is sufficiently intelligent to make use of the resources available to them, when writing a post to publish online, if it's not intentionally an introductory post

zweep 7y ago

It's the infrastructure for self-hosting web apps. So, on top of Sandstorm, you could get a Dropbox-like app, or a Google Docs-like app, or a Flickr-style app, hosted on a box that's in your living room or on your own server in a colo. So instead of uploading your photos to Flickr and sending Flickr links to your family, you would upload your photos to PicShare.StevesHomeComputer.com and send those links to your family, keeping all of your data in your control and not subject to Flickr shutting down one day. It makes sense for some services that are fundamentally user-fragmented (File backup/Evernote/Flickr) but less sense for things that require multiple users to be credentialed like social networking, since social networking structurally benefits from everyone being on the same service.