Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
I just don't see a big market for hosting FOSS apps. There are few apps, if any, that are better than a commercial equivalent already on web/iOS/android with support teams, marketing, etc. Ordinary people don't have much qualms about using a commercial service despite all the privacy warnings in the world: just look at the 1B+ users on Facebook.<p>So if we're left with a small crowd who does care, they're also largely the same crowd who feels comfortable getting a DO droplet and apt-get installing whatever app.<p>I fee bad for the sandstorm guys, seems like they put a lot of energy into it, but they approached it as an engineering challenge rather than from a market research "build what people want" challenge.