[pbronez]

Thank you for your work on Sandstorm! I live in the highly-regulated, not-for-profit world. Sandstorm's architecture was very compelling for us. Self-hosting was a good place to start and the Capability-based Security solved a lot of problems.

I agree that the overall functionality for the apps wasn't quite up to snuff. The problem is, self-hosted apps are structurally under-resourced relative to their hosted peers. This is because SaaS providers can amortize development costs over a much bigger user base while simultaneously capturing operations efficiencies.

In my world, we want all the latest stuff, but refuse to let anyone host our data. We wind up with a small vendor pool that specializes in meeting regulatory requirements instead of making good software. I am very interested in finding technical solutions to this problem. Or at least, technical solutions that create new options to solve the operational and cultural problems!