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/me immediately downloads dumps of all his app's data. But seriously, what will this mean for my user data? Privacy, portability, etc. What alternatives are there that compare in quality? Don't tell me HeliOS, because that's iOS-only (I use Parse for it's web apps mostly).
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Facebook has a mindshare problem. I no longer consider it a driving force in my social interaction and I'm of the older generation. The younger generation seems to have abandoned it already. It's now a deposit for the occasional family photo and lately seems to be full of chain spam. When you think back to the history of social networks (AOL, Compuserv, Friendster, Myspace) these things don't have a great half-life.…
I've noticed this, too. I still log into FB often. But, my FB feed is dead. Only 1 of my 100+ friends still posts something regularly (every week or two). At first, I just thought people created filters that didn't include me (when that feature was introduced). But, they're just not using FB anymore. Thinking back, I almost totally stopped posting stuff around the time they did because the site just began to feel cre…
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Our focus on quality in product and documentation got us to this point so we're not going to change that strategy anytime soon :-)
What did your revenues look like? This acquisition doesn't really tell us if Parse, based around a proprietary SDK, had a viable business model or not.
(from the buddy.com team)
Parse is handling 10 million requests for our app per month, and I'm very uneasy about this.
Why? Email me - ilya@parse.com
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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)?
Does $85M seem really cheap to anyone else?
It's pretty hard to see how a near $100 million exit in circumstances like that would be disappointing or "really cheap". (And congrats certainly seem in order for everyone involved).
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Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.
Facebook has a mindshare problem. I no longer consider it a driving force in my social interaction and I'm of the older generation. The younger generation seems to have abandoned it already. It's now a deposit for the occasional family photo and lately seems to be full of chain spam. When you think back to the history of social networks (AOL, Compuserv, Friendster, Myspace) these things don't have a great half-life.…
The only thing that sucks up more of my time is Hacker News :)
/me immediately downloads dumps of all his app's data. But seriously, what will this mean for my user data? Privacy, portability, etc. What alternatives are there that compare in quality? Don't tell me HeliOS, because that's iOS-only (I use Parse for it's web apps mostly).
We're not changing anything. We're not going to suddenly lock in your data, share it somewhere you don't want it to be shared, or anything like that.
> "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people."
As do a few acquisitions followed by shut-downs: Drop.io, Face.com ($100M!), Gowalla, etc.