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Facebook is closing Parse

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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by jaxondu »

arungupta wrote: post #387
teebot wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm afraid google will kill firebase too. I built some sort of mvp with firebase and I intend to port it to express/postgres.

Consider moving to Couchbase Mobile ( http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile ). Why? - Its an open source solution that allows you to build mobile applications that work online and offline. - With Couchbase Lite, you have the full power of a Couchbase database locally on the device. You can create, update, delete, query, sync and much, much more. - Couchbase Sync Gateway gives you everything you need to securely sync…

Too many spam posts from you about Couchbase Mobile. Anyway I do not see the similarity. Parse is hosted platform, build for mobile developers that do not want to self-host the backends, with affordable entry cost. Couchbase Mobile is a product offering with licensing and paid subscriptions for support, pricing has to be requested in order to know the exact, and the backends (Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server) starts few thousands dollars per node. And we have to deploy and host the backends (whether we choose to buy or use the free community version). One can choose IBM Cloudant to host, but then Cloudant is hosting CouchDB compatible database and you'd miss the Couchbase Sync Gateway component, which is the main selling points (sync, offline) of Couchbase Mobile. Correct me if wrong.

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Post by maxko »

Suddenly! I just finished pretty complex app which relies on Parse, can anybody recommend some alternative service? I have looked at Kinvey, but it seems too expensive. Does anybody have experience with Backendless?

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by exodust »

The parse blog crashes my Firefox browser. Even in safe mode and without javascript the browser crashes.

Also, trying to close my Parse account is impossible. Then I found this on their FAQ:

"Currently, there is no way to delete an account. You can just stop using it; we won't spam you."

But they did spam me, I got an email from "FocusVision an independent research firm via Facebook." asking me to take a survey about Parse. I have nothing to do with Facebook, never had a Facebook account, never will. I'd forgotten Parse was acquired by Facebook.. now I remember the "it won't change anything, we're not going anywhere" blog posts from 2 years ago.

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Post by pferde »

Startups411 wrote: post #375
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.

What about push notifications and Parse Config? Social apps that triggered push notifications now loose that functionality when moving to Parse Server, right? Also what about security? One of the beautiful things about Parse was not having to worry about servers and the security of back-end because you knew Parse was on top of it.

Depends on your viewpoint: One of the beautiful things about having your own back-end is not having to worry whether or not some 3rd party team is not neglecting security of the back-end because you know you are on top of it.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by jmiserez »

golergka wrote: post #100
jewel wrote: post #16

I am happy to see that they're not using any of the insulting language that would land them on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ . FYI, here's the announcement of the acquisition from April 25, 2013: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/the-future-of-parse/ Relevant bits: Q: Will my Parse app be affected in any way? No. Q: Will Parse apps have to use Facebook functionality? No. Q: Will Parse honor my contract? Y…

This tumblr is so beautiful and so painful at the same time.

The post itself is an image right? With dark text on dark background? Why!?!

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Post by dmitriz »

argo12 wrote: post #428
bikamonki wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Au contraire: it opens a wider deeper well. Parse customers are now up for grabs. Do you think they will go back to program back-ends and rent a server? I personally won't. So the supermaket chain where you usually shop at closes its stores for whatever reason. Do you go back to farming your backyard or do you find a new store? The BAAS industry is super young, only hipsters are into it. But it makes sense so it will…

That's exactly our thought (hasura.io) while we prepare for our "launch" next week. We've been studying Parse's growth and are definitely going after their market. Our core philosophy with the BaaS is however to keep it as open as possible. We wrote this up in response to Parse shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104

Is it production ready?

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Post by adamors »

DannyBee wrote: post #405
aikah wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We're not going anywhere." I'd like another answer like. "We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale". If Parse had an opersource version to begin with, it would have been much much more successful and people would have been less worried about building on a third party platform. If Firebase closes tomorrow…

"Google is a big org. Tomorrow some upper executive you don't even know might decide your product doesn't add value anymore. You know that. " This demonstrates a pretty strong misunderstanding of how google actually works.

Well, there's a reason people have been compiling a graveyard of Google products: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...

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Post by rms_returns »

joering2 wrote: post #301
estefan wrote: post #285

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The day I see ads on whatsapp is the day I leave.

Facebook owns whatsapp. You already making FB money even if you not crossing FB site. Actually you're working for Facebook... and you do it for free!

Kindly explain, if WhatsApp doesn't show me ads nor do I have a paid subscription to WhatsApp then how is Facebook making money from me?
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