Developers struggle to configure application sandboxes safely
Developers sandboxing complex apps have trouble figuring out which system calls and resources to allow, and translating that into a safe, working profile. Inspecting trace output or approving access one item at a time is tedious, while poor or outdated guidance can leave people guessing. The challenge spans different sandbox mechanisms and operating systems, so a useful tool should make its limits clear rather than imply that one observed run proves a profile is complete.
For developers sandboxing complex or untrusted applications. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Apr 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
4 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 6.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- High
What people said
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I still struggled with allowing some complex apps to run at all, because of the sheer amount of syscalls and devices they required. Digging through a mountain of strace output is tedious
imiric on Hacker NewsOct 2023Programs will access many files and directories on startup, and it would be extremely tedious to have to manually approve each one. So you'd auto-approve all and save them to the profile
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