Umbrel
Self-hosting Solutions
A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
Actively maintained
⊘ Proprietary
Personal server for running self-hosted apps easily and securely.
Sandstorm is an open-source self-hosting solutions project, with 7.1k GitHub stars and a health score of 29/100. It committed 15 times in the last twelve months across 4 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: Apache-2.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-05-26 |
| Days since last commit | 83 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 15 |
| Months with activity | 4 of 12 |
| Last release | None detected |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Category | Self-hosting Solutions |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Sandstorm is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Slowing down. Sandstorm recorded 15 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 4 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-26. No recent release was detected. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Sandstorm is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
27 open-source implementations, 8 of them actively maintained, led by Umbrel at 12k stars. Saturation score 37/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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