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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by gimenete »

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?

In my company we are developing http://backbeam.io/

It is still in beta but just for a couple of weeks. In general it is similar to parse.com but it has also heavy support for developing web applications hosted on backbeam (optinally with custom domain). It also has a more powerful query language, a real-time API and great support to manipulate files (you can escale images in different ways just by changing parameters in a URL).

Each project has two environments and you can browse the databases visually taking special care of relationships between entities.

The website is being redesigned and the documentation is work in progress.

This is an example of a complex query to the database:

select('news').query('join author join last 5 comments having score > ? fetch author', min_score)

We are open to comments and suggestions :)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by epaga »

csmajorfive wrote: post #207
epaga wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same boat - was planning on using Parse and no longer think I will. Core issue: complete lack of trust that Facebook won't screw things up as they have so many times in the past (frequent breaking changes to their API, etc.). Also, complete lack of trust in Facebook due to their lack of understanding of the need for privacy as opposed to pseudo-social ... "stuff".

We've had extensive discussions with Facebook about this. We (Parse) have a pretty strong view on the pain of breaking changes.

What's sad to me is I have a HUGELY high view of "you" (i.e. Parse) - your documentation & examples are the best I have seen for any developer services, bar none. I'm just afraid what will happen as you get assimilated into the giant blue monster.

But still - genuine congratulations! You guys have definitely earned it, I'm sure this was the right step financially.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by estel »

UntitledNo4 wrote: post #183
vabmit wrote: post #161

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I haven't posted anything on Google+ is well over a year. I don't think people moving to Google+ from FB. And, I'm sure Google+ is not the next big social network.

I hope that the next social network will be real life and that online services will go back to what those things used to be: websites that do one thing good (see Flickr) rather than trying to buy our mortal souls. Or giving me (us?) the feeling this is is what they're trying to do.

Real life? Are you suggesting that there's no value in socialising online?

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by lucian1900 »

jkubicek wrote: post #75
pifflesnort wrote: post #53

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> 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.

It actually is very easy, we have a tiny pushserver written in Python that was written in a day or something like that. It's been running for almost a year without a restart, so it didn't even need further development.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by estel »

merlinsbrain wrote: post #226
6thSigma wrote: post #95

As a Parse user I had hoped they would be a "never sell" type of company. This news saddens me. We will likely be migrating off soon.

As someone who was just about to use Parse, what options are you looking at?

See the replies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609898

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by robinh »

lmm wrote: post #221
argonaut wrote: post #119

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Totally disagree. I'm in college right now and Facebook+Instagram are still the social networks of choice. If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one. The only thing that sucks up more of my time is Hacker News :)

> If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one. Sometimes I think every social network is doomed to die in a certain number of years. Facebook simply isn't cool any more because everybody's on it now, which mean's it's ripe for disruption by a network of cool people.

I feel inclined to agree. The same thing happened to MySpace, and (in the Netherlands) to Hyves. I'm sure there are more examples.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by outside1234 »

Todd wrote: post #192
fizzbar wrote: post #133

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Way, way too soon to declare G+ a miserable failure. It's the lynchpin to their long term strategy for maintaining their dominance and relevance in Search, which in turn is how their Golden Goose of ad revenue lays its eggs. Whether us schmuck users like or dislike it is irrelevant. At some point, G+ will be mandatory, as someone in Slate (i think, or maybe on quora somewhere) recently wrote...

If Google makes G+ mandatory, then they expose themselves to competitors that don't require such ties.

And if its mandatory for search, then anti-trust too.
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