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Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by dmitriz »

Danielmy wrote: post #206
dmitriz wrote: post #170

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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?

Unlike Facebook, backand main business is being a Baas. It has a lot of developers and fully backed. In addition, Backand's unique feature is that you can get the database connection and the server side configuration any time you want!

The first thing I read here https://www.backand.com/about/ is

> "Backand’s proprietary technology".

This means, if Backand will be acquired and shut down, all my time spent on learning specifics of Backand infrastructure will be wasted?

Are there any plans to open-source the platform? That would give some guarantee and peace of mind.

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by estefan »

joering2 wrote: post #508
rms_returns wrote: post #448

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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?

Sure it goes something like this: - hey rms, how you been? - good Alice, just been busy - we're finally looking to buy our first house.. so excited about it can't wait! - awesome, man! do you have location on your mind?? - well, me and wife are looking into Los Angeles and neighborhood, unsure yet.. - cool I come visit you! - yeah you guys swing buy! We want to buy at least 4bd house, so there will be plenty of room…

I don't use FB...

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by joering2 »

estefan wrote: post #522
joering2 wrote: post #508

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Sure it goes something like this: - hey rms, how you been? - good Alice, just been busy - we're finally looking to buy our first house.. so excited about it can't wait! - awesome, man! do you have location on your mind?? - well, me and wife are looking into Los Angeles and neighborhood, unsure yet.. - cool I come visit you! - yeah you guys swing buy! We want to buy at least 4bd house, so there will be plenty of room…

I don't use FB...

You don't have to. Majority of internet websites includes either ads or forums/comment sections coming back to FB cookies. So yes they do know what to show you on drudgereport when you chat on whatsapp. try yourself!

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by jwngr »

giarc wrote: post #325
mayop100 wrote: post #201

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[Firebase founder here] We're not going anywhere. We have strong backing here at Google and are continuing to make big investments in our platform. You'll see big things from us soon. What makes us different? Firebase is very complementary to Google's other product offerings. Cloud for one, as well as Angular, Polymer, GCM, etc.

Old Parse user here - any plan to provide a swift SDK?

Our iOS SDK can be used in both Objective-C and Swift: https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by pseudobry »

cloud170 wrote: post #509

I think someone posted this on another thread somewhere (and sorry I could not dig it back up). With MongoLab and Google Cloud Platform, I literally just re-specified the Parse App ID and Keys and got the Parser server up and running in matter of minutes: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s... Yes, with limitation on quite a few things now. But it's a good start. Next thing to explore is how…

I put together that tutorial. Ping me @jmdobry (GitHub/Twitter) with questions. Also, https://gcp-slack.appspot.com/

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by pseudobry »

fomojola wrote: post #311

Is there an opportunity for a 3rd-party hosted Parse service? Seems like that may be an option for the folks who are currently using Parse and need to move: someone to basically run the open source service on top of AWS/Linode/Digital Ocean/Google Cloud for a nominal fee.

https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s...

Re: Facebook is closing Parse

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Post by tbrock »

gevaperry wrote: post #189
tbrock wrote: post #107

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Honestly, there are none, huge opportunity here.

Not true. There's https://www.backand.com , kinvey, appcelerator titanium and others. There's a list here: http://www.frontendhandbook.com/tools/baas.html

You must be joking.
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