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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by pifflesnort » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:32 PM UTC

csmajorfive wrote: post #64

pifflesnort wrote: post #48

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Unfortunately, intentions about how you'll operate after an acquisition are just wishes. There's a huge corporate political apparatus that just paid a lot of money for the right to implant their thumb print on how you do things. You may be able to push that day forward, but unless you wind up in charge, there's not much long-term hope. Congratulations on the acquisition, but sorry about the acquisition.

I've been through an acquisition before. We're not going into this without having thought through the future.

Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :)

Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by tn13 » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #97

Apocryphon wrote: post #20

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Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.

If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.

I think it is already a bigger problem. In past Google has always been quick to accept their failures and correct it's course but with their social networking product I think they are not willing to admit that they are a miserable failure.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

grellas wrote: post #69

csmajorfive wrote: post #50

Shout out to HN favorite grellas for being our counsel. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas

Thanks, Ilya - amazing outcome and richly deserved. A wonderful group of founders and a supportive and first-class group of investors.

Now there is a good combination :)

Congratulations to all of you!

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by benatkin » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

idea_shot wrote: post #98

oneplusone wrote: post #4

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service

That chart is quite entertaining. Too complex to be accurate but very informative.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by rdouble » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

pifflesnort wrote: post #96

rdouble wrote: post #66

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It's still an afternoon's worth of headache. Parse is just the time it takes to set up the certs, profile and configure your app. Plus, doing it DIY means you have to maintain a system for sending the notifications, whereas Parse provides that for you.

It also means you own the system, don't get screwed over when Parse gets bought, and all for just a little bit of work. Seems like a small amount to pay for something that will essentially run itself indefinitely.

That is a good point which is quite apparent today. :)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by psbp » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:42 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #97

Apocryphon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.

If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.

I'm pretty sure Google made G+ to integrate better with products like Glass, which are only just starting to pick up steam. This video helped clarify why Google would invest so much into Google+ :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMY-iNnqUIo

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by youngerdryas » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:42 PM UTC

csmajorfive wrote: post #55

abijlani wrote: post #9

I'm a big fan of Parse even though I prefer Firebase as a developer. This is sad news because I think they were one company that was executing really well and would have been successful on their own. Even though Facebook and Parse say they are not going to shutdown the service we all know how that story goes.

They may not be the majority but there are acquisitions where a service keeps running. This is one of them.

Parse is awesome, and you may be right, but for me being owned by Facebook is a deal breaker.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by csmajorfive » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:43 PM UTC

icodestuff wrote: post #47

Congrats, Parse guys. Please try not to let Facebook ruin an awesome service.

We won't.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by csmajorfive » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:44 PM UTC

BillySquid wrote: post #38

Good news for the Parse team, but not so good for Parse users.

Why? We're not going anywhere. Email me if you want to chat - ilya@parse.com

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by Ranma » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:44 PM UTC

joeblossom wrote: post #42

kevinbluer wrote: post #32

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They also offer a full mobile back-end (increasingly referred to as MBaaS...admittedly not the nicest acronym): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backend_as_a_service

"full mobile back-end" is pushing it. Don't get me wrong, I love what Parse has brought to the market, but the capability of it is limited at the moment. One of the biggest limitations is the length for which cloud code methods can run. (Nothing longer than a second, IIRC) You can build a social sharing app, or share some data between apps, but building a "product" on it is limited to very simple cases.

CloudMine JavaScript snippets can run for 30 seconds, and they also support Java snippets! I assume some of the other similar services allow for longer snippets as well.