Hacker News Reader

Completely agree. But of course using a cloud service means no need to run a server on your own network/device or have to punch holes in your router to have the device accessible whilst you are not at home. Requiring either of those wouldn't help IoT adoption outside of enthusiasts.

View on HN

If you could give everyone their own 'personal cloud', without having them become sysadmins, then it's possible (of course, that's not easy but it's also why it's a valuable goal). The work under Nymote has a longer term vision so not ready to help people just yet -- some more detail at http://nymote.org/blog/2015/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/

In this instance, I bet sandstorm.io could come up with a transition for Ninja Blocks users. I hope they think about it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com