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Sandstorm

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

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Top financial contributors

Individuals

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Eric W.

$500 USD since Mar 2023

2
ArmaniXR

$500 USD since Oct 2023

3
Jim Garrison

$340 USD since Jun 2021

4
Jacob Weisz

$300 USD since Jan 2020

5
Ivan

$230 USD since Apr 2022

6
Eric Schultz

$210 USD since Oct 2023

7
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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Ryan Singer

$50 USD since Jan 2024

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Leon Barrett

$30 USD since Oct 2023

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Thomas Greco

$10 USD since Dec 2023

Organizations

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FundOSS

$5,263 USD since Jun 2021

2
hledger

$100 USD since Oct 2023

Sandstorm is all of us

Our contributors 19

Thank you for supporting Sandstorm.

Jacob Weisz

Admin

$300 USD

Ian Denhardt

Core Contributor

$70 USD

Adam Bliss

Core Contributor

FundOSS

$5,263 USD

Eric W.

$500 USD

ArmaniXR

$500 USD

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Jim Garrison

$340 USD

Ivan

$230 USD

Eric Schultz

$210 USD

Dan Connolly

$108 USD

hledger

$100 USD

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Today’s balance

$2,479.88 USD

Total raised

$7,008.58 USD

Total disbursed

$4,528.70 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,290.31 USD

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News from Sandstorm

Updates on our activities and progress.

Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future

We've posted an update on our plans with the project here: https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-10-23-sandstor...
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Published on October 23, 2023 by Jacob Weisz

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.

Our team

Ian Denhardt

Core Contributor

Adam Bliss

Core Contributor