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."