Varda: Sandstorm raises $1.3M seed; paying forward crowdfunds

On the Sandstorm blog, co-founder and CEO Kenton Varda gives an update on the funding and plans for the company behind the open-source Sandstorm personal cloud platform. We looked at the project back in June. "In fact, we are now arguably more aligned with the community than before. Whereas previously there had been a lot of pressure on us to focus on our subscription-based managed hosting option as a way to get revenue, our immediate goal now is just to develop and prove the platform. That means that self-hosted users are just as important to us as paying subscribers. To that end, the first thing we have done with our new money is to hire Asheesh Laroia, a long-time self-hosting and Free Software enthusiast, whose main focus will be improving Sandstorm’s self-hosting experience. To be clear, everything you need to run your own Sandstorm server will always be free and open source, still developed in the open."

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