And here I thought there wasn't any money in dev tools...
Facebook buys Parse
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Re: Facebook buys Parse
#122Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :) Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?
If so, this doesn't instill much confidence: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/salesforce-buys-email-conta...
That was a talent deal top to bottom. This isn't.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#125Congrats to the team for being the third-biggest exit to date of a company to come from a seed accelerator. http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=exit
[edited; originally said FB bought OMGPOP but it was Zynga. Sorry I was wrong, it's past midnight here]
Looks like they're making Ignition Partners happy... I'd guess around a 4x return. But making a lot of other angels/funds happy, too. (Garry Tan, Google Ventures, David Rusenko amongst others). Details here: http://www.seed-db.com/companies/view?companyid=102025
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#126Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?
Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though.
So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.
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#127Parse is an amazing product. Facebook just killed it on this acquisition if they can find a way to leverage Parse's ability to provide quicker deployment and their position as a great platform for rapid distribution.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#128Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?
There's backlift [https://www.backlift.com/] that connects to Dropbox.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#129Congrats to the Parse team. I am a bit bummed. I was very happy to compete with them. Hopefully the founders stay and keep bringing it on.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win) er, what? It's an afternoon's worth of work, involving basic PKI and TCP sockets. I know it's an afternoon's worth of work, because I've done it in an afternoon.
That's silly. Seeing as how I had to google PKI to see what it was, I doubt I'd be able to build a Parse-like service in one afternoon. Parse may not be strictly necessary, but it's a fantastically easy and cheap way for iOS (and Android and front-end and Windows Phone) developers to get their backend up and running.
I actually did build all of my company's push stuff for iOS in an afternoon. It's a very simple TCP protocol that's well documented. If you know anything about basic networking it's cake.