Open Collective
Open Collective

Sandstorm

COLLECTIVE

Sandstorm is a secure, easy to use platform for self-hosting web applications

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Eric W.

$500 USD since Mar 2023

2
Jim Garrison

$280 USD since Jun 2021

3
Jacob Weisz

$240 USD since Jan 2020

4
Ivan

$180 USD since Apr 2022

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Dan Connolly

$108 USD since Mar 2020

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Ian Denhardt

$70 USD since Mar 2020

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Sönke Klimenko

$50 USD since Apr 2020

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jlev

$50 USD since Apr 2022

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frigginGlorious

$50 USD since Feb 2023

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Seth Poovey

$50 USD since Mar 2023

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Fund OSS

$5,263 USD since Jun 2021

Sandstorm is all of us

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Jacob Weisz

Admin

$240 USD

Ian Denhardt

Admin

$70 USD

Adam Bliss

Core Contributor

Fund OSS

$5,263 USD

Eric W.

$500 USD

Jim Garrison

$280 USD

Ivan

$180 USD

Dan Connolly

$108 USD

jlev

$50 USD

frigginGlorious

$50 USD

Seth Poovey

$50 USD

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Today’s balance

$2,071.40 USD

Total raised

$6,078.83 USD

Total disbursed

$4,007.43 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,061.21 USD

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News from Sandstorm

Updates on our activities and progress.

The Sandstorm Community is participating in FundOSS!

Hey everyone, Since GitHub's matching program ended, we've been trying to keep an eye out for any funding opportunities that we might be able to take advantage of. One such opportunity presented itself a few months ago via Open Source Colle...
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Published on June 3, 2021 by Jacob Weisz

Initializing OpenCollective...

Since the beginning of this year, the Sandstorm community has found renewed energy and active development of the platfor...
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Published on March 15, 2020 by Lyre Calliope

About


 
Sandstorm is a web app hosting platform which prioritizes security and ease of use. It is designed to bring the convenience of cloud-based web apps onto a self-hosted platform. Users can install applications as easily as they install apps on their smartphone, and share and collaborate with other users easily. Sandstorm is designed to be easy to stand up and administrate as well, including support for automatically configured free dynamic DNS addresses and Let’s Encrypt certificates. Sandstorm can work well for personal use, small family or social groups, and organizations.

However, where Sandstorm really stands apart from other platforms in the app hosting and virtualization spaces is its approach to security. Unlike many other container-based app platforms, Sandstorm handles all of the authentication, access, and security at a granular level. Apps packaged for Sandstorm are not containerized per app, but per document, or “grain”, as Sandstorm refers to individual instances of each application. In the case of a spreadsheet application such as EtherCalc, each spreadsheet is hosted in a separate secure container, started and stopped on demand.

In practice, apps packaged for Sandstorm are often more secure than the same exact apps running on their own, or within another hosting platform, as access to one document cannot be exploited to access another document, as can commonly occur with security flaws in conventional web applications. Most vulnerabilities in packaged apps simply do not apply to their Sandstorm counterparts.

Sandstorm was launched via a crowdfunding campaign in 2014, operated as a startup until it spun down in 2017, and has continued as an actively-maintained community project since then. The Sandstorm community is looking to raise funds to support continued development of new features and additional app packaging efforts.

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Adam Bliss

Core Contributor