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Great! After this discussion, it's clearer to me that Sandstorm is "user-friendly [Docker]/[containers for web-apps]". I think I was misled when Kenton repeate

Great! After this discussion, it's clearer to me that Sandstorm is "user-friendly [Docker]/[containers for web-apps]". I think I was misled when Kenton repeatedly pointed out how, with Sandstorm, disappearing SaaS wouldn't be a problem. This implied that there was a relatively an easy way to take an existing web-app and turn it into a Sandstorm App. I now realize how naive that impression was, as making a Sandstorm App actually requires adapting the webapp to Sandstorm, which requires development work and access to the source code. Which, as someone who is perfectly able to rev up a virtual server and install some web-app, including configuring it to use some shared auth backend, isn't as groundbreaking as I hoped for. Sandstorm is a great value proposition for the reasons you cite, just not the amazing unicorn I unrealistically expected.

kentonv 12y ago
> Which, as someone who is perfectly able to rev up a virtual server and install some web-app, including configuring it to use some shared auth backend, isn't as groundbreaking as I hoped for. While you may be capable of doing that, you are part of a very small set of people. We aren't going to see a revolution where everyone starts using self-hosted applications unless everyone is in fact capable of doing so. And without a large userbase to attract developers, the apps you are running on your personal server will never rival SaaS competitors in quality or variety. That in turn means that even people who are happy with the difficulty of self-hosting today have a lot to gain...