I use sandstorm right now. It's be absolutely great so far. The only downside is some of the apps either aren't packaged the best or aren't truly designed for Sandstorm, but other than that the system itself is rock solid. I hope the team will start helping out projects and developers get apps out faster and more reliably.
In my experience they're doing quite a bit to help people port apps. Every time I've posted to the mailing list or hopped on IRC, someone has been there to help out. The nature of sandstorm's security controls means that any given app is either going to be really easy to port or quite difficult. Apps that don't make backend network requests tend to be pretty easy.
One challenge I've run into is that for an app to truly fit into sandstorm it needs its authentication and user management removed. This usually isn't too hard (just ripping out code) but it can be hard to upstream changes in a way that doesn't break stuff, then as the sandstorm maintainer you have to contend with merge conflicts as the upstream app releases new versions.
Yea I've noticed that as well. There are also minor issues with file needing to be used for it to work requiring developers to use their entire app every deploy.
I was going to start developing my future projects (opensource and private) with this idea in mind so I don't have to worry about trying to make it work.
Oh yes I absolutely agree. The reason one of my apps is available on the sandstorm store is because @paulproteus pushed me so hard to push it to their platform. Got a ton of help, and they even made an icon for the application.
