I see you have an App Market -- is anyone selling apps for Sandstorm, or are they all free? If there was a way to monetize, I'm surprised someone wouldn't invest the time to make Wordpress support comments and then sell it on your market?
To me this is a really interesting monetization model... can a few small developers write a Sandstorm app which potentially 1M+ users could one day be deploying and self hosting, while charging some nominal annual fee to fund the development?
When I saw the YC W16 startup on the front page a few days ago selling the pretty box to enterprises who wanted to self-host, first thing I thought of was Sandstorm. Why sell hardware? You are making the platform which makes managing the apps possible for 90% of businesses, that has to be where the value is.
We plan to support paid apps at some point (more precisely, in-app purchases, which my friends who worked on Android say is far more effective than paying for the apps themselves), but haven't gotten there yet.
I see you have an App Market -- is anyone selling apps for Sandstorm, or are they all free? If there was a way to monetize, I'm surprised someone wouldn't invest the time to make Wordpress support comments and then sell it on your market?
To me this is a really interesting monetization model... can a few small developers write a Sandstorm app which potentially 1M+ users could one day be deploying and self hosting, while charging some nominal annual fee to fund the development?
When I saw the YC W16 startup on the front page a few days ago selling the pretty box to enterprises who wanted to self-host, first thing I thought of was Sandstorm. Why sell hardware? You are making the platform which makes managing the apps possible for 90% of businesses, that has to be where the value is.