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Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

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Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

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TIL: Converting between USD and EUR is simple stuff. Just place the currency symbol at the end. No?

> "Honest and flexible pricing for your needs"

I don't find it that honest to require $39.72 from your customers that pays with EUR, and $29.99 from customers that pays with USD.

Steam does the same.

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

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post #11
post #4

TIL: Converting between USD and EUR is simple stuff. Just place the currency symbol at the end. No?

> "Honest and flexible pricing for your needs" I don't find it that honest to require $39.72 from your customers that pays with EUR, and $29.99 from customers that pays with USD. Steam does the same.

Taxes are included and they apply to customers within the EU. If you convert $29.99 to EUR and add the required taxes you get 29.99€ almost exactly.

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

#13

Do these guys even know their own name? From Powerful data models and queries : > With backeam you can model Emphasis mine. It's not even a quickly-typed email from a company rep, it's the front page of their website.

Sorry for the typo. It's fixed now.

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

#14
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Honest and flexible pricing for your needs" I don't find it that honest to require $39.72 from your customers that pays with EUR, and $29.99 from customers that pays with USD. Steam does the same.

Taxes are included and they apply to customers within the EU. If you convert $29.99 to EUR and add the required taxes you get 29.99€ almost exactly.

This should probably be mentioned somewhere!

As well, know that as a EU buyer, if I buy from you in $, the VAT still applies.

See http://docs.recurly.com/vat for more information

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

#15
post #8

Looks interesting - nice landing page. What are the differences between Backbeam and Parse?

Some differences:

- Rich control panel, rich data model and powerful query engine. You can make complex data models and then you can view/edit the data and their relationships easily in the control panel. There are many data types including geolocations and rich text.

- The query engine includes joins, conditional joins, and full text queries.

- Files. You can crop/scale images on the fly. Just ask backbeam in which size and scaling policy you need it.

- Realtime API

- Email delivery integrated with well-known platforms such as Postmark, Amazon SES, etc. You can edit and create email templates right on the control panel.

- Full web development framework, right on the browser. You can create views and controllers in an online editor and test your webapp and get feedback of any errors without leaving the browser (you don't need a terminal to push your changes, just save and refresh).

- You can create many web versions, publish one of them and continue developing the others.

- Open Source SDKs.

- You have two environments: dev and pro by default.

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taxes are included and they apply to customers within the EU. If you convert $29.99 to EUR and add the required taxes you get 29.99€ almost exactly.

This should probably be mentioned somewhere! As well, know that as a EU buyer, if I buy from you in $, the VAT still applies. See http://docs.recurly.com/vat for more information

Thank you. We will explain this somewhere. About the VAT and currency, at this moment we decide the currency based on your location. So if you are a EU-based company we will charge the price in €.

Re: Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

#19

Do these guys even know their own name? From Powerful data models and queries : > With backeam you can model Emphasis mine. It's not even a quickly-typed email from a company rep, it's the front page of their website.

"When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger."

No acritude, just joking ;)

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