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Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Parse (although it lives on as open source and other providers, see. https://buddy.com/blog/parse-buddy-forever-free-full-feature... for example) Microsoft's WPF

How does firebase compare to what parse was?

Edit: I’ve used firebase a lot and found it to be a great experience, enabling some of the most rapid product development I’ve ever done. Real-time db, login, cloud functions, and integration with google cloud are all great. Just wondering if there’s something cool or different about parse/buddy worth looking into. Also curious if it was different than firebase and wonder if it died because it wasn’t.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Rdio. Music Streaming service. Not sure what happened after they closed up shop but the UI was beautiful and they had great performance.

I really miss Rdio! Just disagree on the performance a bit.

The UI was fluid, but their network performance would take a hit from how their API had been designed: every action on the app would trigger a large JSON payload download (and sometimes upload).

It definitely felt nicer than Spotify.

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