This project release is a long time coming. It was a big uphill battle, and by far my largest endeavor so far. I built it for Sandstorm because I believe in Sandstorm's model, and I wanted to show that there's still life and potential in it. If you're inspired, joining our OpenCollective would be really helpful: https://opencollective.com/sandstormcommunity (keeping in mind that Sandstorm has now moved from its original leadership to a community project https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-11-03-from-io-to-org).
You can also join our mailing list or connect on the fediverse: https://sandstorm.org/community (The IRC link is outdated, we've effectively moved to Matrix for now due to the libera.chat split: https://matrix.to/#/#sandstorm:libera.chat)
Also: I'm open for hire! You can see some of my skills in putting things together in this blog post. I'd love to work in something FOSS or OSM related, but not a requirement. I mostly do Python and Golang, with a bit of Haskell under my belt. Other projects and resume here: https://github.com/orblivion/me
Maybe the confusion stems from the part that the same dev is also the dev of photon? (which is based on ElasticSearch)
Thank you for this very useful info, I will keep my eye on Nominatim lite! If it's coming soon I can focus on things other than search for now.
I was a huge fan of the project during its hay day, yet it didn't gather enough interest to make it popular as a self-hosting solution. For the apps it still has (including this one), it's still unmatchable.
Regardless, that does not diminish its usefulness. I ran it for several years and love the idea of isolated instances one can share with unique links. Learned a lot just hosting it, so thanks again, Kenton - he was on IRC chat when I had a question. True geek through and through.
Honestly my strong preference is for apps to be written directly for Sandstorm, though obviously there is a big chicken and egg problem to getting people to build apps to run on Sandstorm instead of Docker-based tools.
I like the idea a lot, thanks for developing this and sharing to the community!
At a glance, probably the biggest pain point for Baserow would be that apparently they decided to "deprecate" installing it with anything except Docker[1]. Presumably between the deprecated guide and the Dockerfile, one could figure out how to do it anyways, but it would probably be a pretty significant amount of work.
[1] https://baserow.io/docs/installation%2Fold-install-on-ubuntu