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So can I use sandstorm to run a personal RSS reader? It seems like one of the things it would be well suited for.


Yes. We have TinyTinyRSS on there now.

Note that Sandstorm is still in development and for the moment we've created a hack to allow ttrss to make arbitrary HTTP requests in order to update feeds.

However, in a few more months this won't be necessary. Instead, when you click "subscribe to feed", the app will call a method on the Sandstorm API saying "Prompt the user for a URL and then give me permission to access it". So, you'll get a dialog box to enter the URL rendered by Sandstorm itself. If you enter a URL, it's plainly obvious that you want the app to have permission to fetch it, so Sandstorm grants said permission. We call this UI the "powerbox".

Notice how the UX here is equivalent to what we have today, where the app renders its own prompt. This technique of inferring security decisions from actions the user was doing anyway is the core of how we plan to implement tight security without inconveniencing the user.


I've been using TinyTinyRSS on Sandstorm for a while. It even has a mobile app that works with Sandstorm's API. (Though it's a fork, not the official Play Store version.)




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