I was a supporter of Sandstorm.io's kickstarter. Here's what I think now:
- They wanted to avoid the "empty app store" problem by letting you run existing apps. However apps had to be forked and modified to run on sandstorm. It can be quite hard to coerce a codebase to use Sandstorm's APIs and paradigms without introducing bugs. The result is many apps in the store were several versions behind and buggy.
(con't)