Sandstorm Alternatives

Sandstorm reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
  65 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2024

  This hits close to home. I have something similar, except it's not as featureful and it's ridiculously purpose-built for me. E.g. I have one page in this app for generating PDFs of a very specific type that I need. I have another page that parses CSVs from my bank. These aren't tools I use regularly, I just need them occasionally, but they're all in one repo in one project.

  There are of course apps that do each of these, but when you start integrating them together, with their different ways of doing auth, different kinds of APIs, etc. things get so complicated. I worked in a company that integrated with some third parties and those integrations were easily 50% of the workload for the dev team and maybe 90% of the workload for support. There is so much effort being wasted on having different systems for different things.

  I feel like there's an idea out there that will solve all this for open source--maybe involving stitched GraphQL APIs, OIDC+JWT for auth, etc. Something kind of like Sandstorm[1] except with Sandstorm the different apps weren't necessarily built with Sandstorm in mind. In this system there would be a centralized identity management system like Keycloak that manages concepts like users, roles and apps, and everything else delegates auth to that centralized system.

  [1] https://sandstorm.io/

• Website Impersonating a Desktop Environment
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023

  Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/

• Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023

  RemoteStorage https://remotestorage.io/ seems to be trying to do this too

  I also really like the https://sandstorm.io approach which goes a little farther beyond

• Tech Independence
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2023

  They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/

• Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2023

  I did read from somewhere, that with Wordpress SEO plugins etc some website got to top of search results.

  Those that did website with other tech did not get same results, and thinked how to compete or survive.

  For security, I use Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io fork of WordPress that generates static websites. But that does not work with some interactive plugins.

• Plunder and Urbit
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2023

  Urbit made the choice to use a bunch of silly new words for familiar concepts, not because they were inventing something so new that there were no words to describe it, but because they wanted to fool people into thinking that's what they were doing. Actually they just spent 10 years trying to do https://sandstorm.io/, but made it 10 times harder than it needed to be by coming up with a wacky new set of programming languages with silly names for everything.

  That's funny, and it is OK to make fun of it.

• Cap'n Proto 1.0
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2023

  I don't work at Cloudflare but follow their work and occasionally work on performance sensitive projects.

  If I had to guess, they looked at the landscape a bit like I do and regarded Cap'n Proto, flatbuffers, SBE, etc. as being in one category apart from other data formats like Avro, protobuf, and the like.

  So once you're committed to record'ish shaped (rather than columnar like Parquet) data that has an upfront parse time of zero (nominally, there could be marshalling if you transmogrify the field values on read), the list gets pretty short.

  https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-... goes into some of the trade-offs here.

  Cap'n Proto was originally made for https://sandstorm.io/. That work (which Kenton has presumably done at Cloudflare since he's been employed there) eventually turned into Cloudflare workers.

  Another consideration: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/2#issuecomment-...

• 1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
• Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps
  1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 5 Jun 2023
  1 project | /r/hackernews | 5 Jun 2023
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