358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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AnonC ◴[12 Oct 25 06:05 UTC] No.45555674[source]▶

Sandstorm: it seemed quite nice with a lot of possibilities when it launched in 2014, but it didn’t really take off and then it moved to sandstorm.org.

The creator, kentonv (on HN), commented about it recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848099

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1. Geee ◴[12 Oct 25 10:11 UTC] No.45556973[source]▶

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Sandstorm was a great idea, but in my opinion it was targeted wrong. It should have been a platform and marketplace for B2B SaaS, not B2C SaaS. Specifically, all the third-party services which typical web apps use could have been Sandstorm apps, like analytics, logging, email, customer service etc.

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