Facebook is closing Parse • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by heraclez » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:08 PM UTC

adventured wrote: post #120

heraclez wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's not all. Parse just did a full rebranding, including a full frontend overhaul of its dashboard. What the hell is going on?

Deals often are on and then off or otherwise not necessarily expected to happen. In the midst of that, services typically and properly tend to push forward with what they were already doing as though no deal is going to happen. The worst thing you can do, is halt your progress during a negotiation.

Halting progress indeed seems like the commonsensical thing to do. A massive UI overhaul is not be the most resource-efficient course of action if you plan on announcing your demise. Hence my startling

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by dmitriz » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:09 PM UTC

So is the Firebase the next one?

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by katowulf » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:10 PM UTC

ravenkat wrote: post #117

mmanfrin wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Firebase's position is a bit more defensible -- Google has done well to ingratiate Firebase as a backend for angular apps.

The news i have heard from various googlers is, `GOOG acquired Firebase because a project started using Firebase as backend and grew very fast and they didn't want to migrate and just acquired FireBase`.

Sigh. There should be a Snopes for Hacker News.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by nawazdhandala » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:10 PM UTC

DocSavage wrote: post #51

And just when I was about to choose between Parse and Google's Firebase. Makes me wonder if Firebase will follow the same path through acquisition, seeming stability, followed by closing? As far as similar open-source systems, it seems like Mozilla's Kinto compares favorably to Parse after it's code is released: http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html There's a nice table there comparing the different se…

Did you check out CloudBoost.io? Its an open platform on Docker + also available as a managed service.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by crudbug » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

gfosco wrote: post #2

Separately, we developed an open-source Parse-compatible API server for Node/Express. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server This, along with the database migration tools released earlier, allow developers a full migration path to move from Parse hosted data + API to their own infrastructure. Over the weekend, I set up a website & app on a $5 DigitalOcean box running Parse and Mongo locally.

Are you releasing the admin dashboard code as well ? It will be easy to manage the server.

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Post by simple10 » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:13 PM UTC

Anyone used CloudBoost.io and can recommend it as an alternative to Parse?

https://cloudboost.io/

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:13 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by katowulf » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:13 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #5

Goddammit! I built a service on top of Parse and Yahoo Pipes. And I JUST finished porting the Pipe stuff to Lambda.. Oh well, nice of them to provide a DB migration tool and an open source server.

Hang in there, you've got a year to figure out what's next. They're slipping out the door with good style at least.

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Post by oniMaker » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:14 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #29

It will be funny to see all of the abandoned apps that start failing a year from now. Obscure games, utilities, etc. Most people won't be bothered to go through the stress of an App Store review process to update an old free-to-play app that's not even making them revenue. But how many people's morning commutes will be ruined when their old games or news apps fall apart? The price of progress (and of liquidity), I su…

Sometimes I like to think about how future archaeologists will be writing grand dissertations on the digital detritus we're all leaving behind today.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by dmitriz » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 11:14 PM UTC

Danielmy wrote: post #108

Hey guys, you can try www.backand.com which gives you anything that parse had to offer and much more. Real time, hosting, DB and server side action is just a bit of what they give you. Oh and the best part, it's free.

Is there anything that can keep backand.com away from the fate of Stackmob (http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/paypal-closing-down-backen...) and now Parse?