Congratulations! I couldn't be more excited about this.
The personal computer revolution won't be complete until users have personal servers. Desktops, laptops, smartphones -- none of them compare in importance to controlling your own server.
Sandstorm is a great step in that direction. There's something very beautiful in how it "rolls with the blow" of how awful the web is. While Mozilla (sorry to pick on you guys) is just trying to force more JS everywhere, Sandstorm makes one small product and wildly improves what a web app means.
I've just stumbled upon the update (upgrade?) on my self-hosted Sandstorm instance, which I just installed a week ago to try and learn. It feels (and looks, and works!) better.
I'm one of the perfect use cases for Sandstorm -- I use Xubuntu and I've installed it in some friends and relatives' computers, I occasionally help people with "computer problems" and I might dabble with my systems and local network but I'm by no means a net/sysadmin or programmer, and yet I find the whole... ecosystem? (sorry, I can't find the word) fascinating. It's the best sci-fi you can read.
But there is this huge gap that only I seem to see, and I feel Sandstorm could help filling that gap, between those that know how some of this "real sci-fi" works and those that, like me and lots and lots of my fellows, don't.
Let the documentation improve. Hehe, I'm happy about some software thing...
The personal computer revolution won't be complete until users have personal servers. Desktops, laptops, smartphones -- none of them compare in importance to controlling your own server.
Sandstorm is a great step in that direction. There's something very beautiful in how it "rolls with the blow" of how awful the web is. While Mozilla (sorry to pick on you guys) is just trying to force more JS everywhere, Sandstorm makes one small product and wildly improves what a web app means.