[kentonv]

> What if it's 1,000 people paying $10/month? That is possible for one person going the service-oriented route.

It may be possible for a single person to pull this off today, but it's quite a lot of work and responsibility, and it's hard to tell if it will pay off until you've put in a lot of upfront investment. Someone who writes a useful application for themselves on a weekend isn't likely to want to engage in this. But if all they have to do is upload the package they already built to an app store, that's a much easier pill to swallow.

Conversely, as a user, I am not very likely to want to put my data into a service run by one person, especially if the data is sensitive or if I don't want it to suddenly disappear. But if I can run the app on Sandstorm where it is automatically sandboxed and firewalled, with the data staying on my own server, and the app can never disappear, I'm much more comfortable.