Sandstorm.io Reviews and details

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• Website Impersonating a Desktop Environment

  Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database?

  RemoteStorage https://remotestorage.io/ seems to be trying to do this too I also really like the https://sandstorm.io approach which goes a little farther beyond. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Tech Independence

  They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?

  I did read from somewhere, that with Wordpress SEO plugins etc some website got to top of search results. Those that did website with other tech did not get same results, and thinked how to compete or survive. For security, I use Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io fork of WordPress that generates static websites. But that does not work with some interactive plugins. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Plunder and Urbit

  Urbit made the choice to use a bunch of silly new words for familiar concepts, not because they were inventing something so new that there were no words to describe it, but because they wanted to fool people into thinking that's what they were doing. Actually they just spent 10 years trying to do https://sandstorm.io/, but made it 10 times harder than it needed to be by coming up with a wacky new set of... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Cap'n Proto 1.0

  I don't work at Cloudflare but follow their work and occasionally work on performance sensitive projects. If I had to guess, they looked at the landscape a bit like I do and regarded Cap'n Proto, flatbuffers, SBE, etc. As being in one category apart from other data formats like Avro, protobuf, and the like. So once you're committed to record'ish shaped (rather than columnar like Parquet) data that has an upfront... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Wasix, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets

  > Another attempt is sandstorm.io but it was abandoned by the original authors. Sandstorm is still maintained, newest commit 3 days ago: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm At Libera.Chat IRC #sandstorm . Welcome :). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Port's confusion

  Hello, I have some questions about ports. Basically, I am hosting Jellyfin using Apache to a domain on port 80 with a proxy pass going from port 8096 to 80 and that is working fine but now I want to set up sandstorm.io on a separate domain. How do I make this point to a subdomain without interrupting the other website? This whole thing has me confused. Source: 11 months ago

• Restricting network access using Linux Network Namespaces

  You've just described Sandstorm. Sandstorm runs instances (called grains) of applications in a sandbox. The application gets a limited file system and a Cap'n Proto RPC connection to the outside world over a unix socket. Sandstorm runs the HTTPS server, which turns requests into RPC calls. Sandstorm authenticates the users and provides temporary subdomains and frames to sandbox the HTML side of it.... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Self-hosted kanban board

  You can run Wekan yourself using https://sandstorm.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

• The rise of self-hosted apps

  You've probably already seen it, but if not, checkout https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• The rise of self-hosted apps

  Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/ 's dream is to make this as easy as installing a phone app. It's still rough around the edges but I think the model is completely right and the security it offers is excellent. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• New to home server: probably nuking it

  Secure remote access can be facilitated through encrypted tunnels. VPNs, SSH, Cloudflare tunnel, SOCKS, etc. Can all be secure ways of remotely accessing network resources. What you use will vary, depending upon the type of access you require and/or prefer. For file management, there are multiple tools for this task - Nextcloud, Seafile, Pydio, Sandstorm, FileRun, and more available for the choosing. Source: about 1 year ago

• if you move a Google Sheet or Doc from Google Drive to another disk on a computer, the sheet/doc is deleted from Drive and the .gsheet or .gdoc stored locally is useless.

  Haven't used this myself, but a self-hosted version of google docs, drive, sheets, etc exists: https://sandstorm.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

  Sandstorm.io glued this all together in 2014 and it's still available today. https://sandstorm.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What are examples of humanity discovering something amazing and then just moving on and ignoring it?

  Other cool, actively developed personal computing platforms to keep an eye on are Urbit and Sandstorm. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What do you use to build auth? A library, a provider, writing your own?

  I build my apps on Sandstorm[1]_. Sandstorm provides authentication as a part of the platform. For Django applications, I wrote Django Loves Sandstorm[2]_. If your application fits into Sandstorm's model of grains[3], then the security benefits of Sandstorm are many. .. [1] https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Dashy – A self-hosted homepage for your homelab

  > I think we'd be much better served by a really well thought-out framework for self-hosted/homelab dashboards with excellent API documentation that has pluggable modules for things like authentication, data sources (e.g. docker, db, config file, service APIs), and the front end. This would allow people to easily build the dashboard with the features they want, and make it even easier for people to contribute a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Start Self Hosting

  Https://sandstorm.io/ was meant to address this but seems moribund, sadly. Urbit comes to mind as well. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Start Self Hosting

  There are numerous projects which have attempted to create this. https://sandstorm.io/ was the biggest one but as far as I can tell its largely unmaintained and most of the apps are outdated https://yunohost.org/ probably has the best "just works" experience but I didn't like that it wasn't using any kind of containerization which has caused them issues with shared libraries like PHP being difficult to update. As... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Launch HN: Drifting in Space (YC W22) – A server process for every user

  Does the managed service actually require that each user get their own container? For some applications, particularly collaborative ones, it would make much more sense to have a container for each top-level thing that the users are collaborating on, e.g. One per document. I think Sandstorm [1] got this right with its concept of grains, and I've long wanted a tool that brought that model, a stateful container per... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago