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Parse is shutting down today

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Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by shamimalpha »

mignev wrote: post #59

I think you should try https://www.sashido.io . Please share your feedback afterward.

We migrated to Sashido about a month ago. Migration was pretty painless. There was one brief outage lasting a couple of hours but other than that the experience has been positive. Beats having to rewrite the app or deal with running own Parse instance (at this early stage of our startup).

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by bikamonki »

On the shadow of one of the two major BAAS providers shutting down, I still do not understand the hate towards BAAS. There are billions of real life applications out there that could benefit from a BAAS provider that allows developers to put together a production-ready app very fast, reliably and without the need to worry about managing a server. I simply see BAAS as just a higher level of abstraction on top of a VPS/container.

I'd like to thank the guys that built Parse.com, it is an awesome product and I hope this shutdown does not move the industry in the opposite direction, BAAS companies should continue to develop and improve their products.

I should add that after the shutdown I went shopping around for migration and found Sashido.io to be a good option. Migration was automatic and I just needed to change the API URL of my apps to get them going. Zero downtime.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by ruslan_talpa »

csmajorfive wrote: post #62

I just want to say thank you to the HN community. We learned a lot in engaging with folks here over the years.

Hi Ilya, You've really done a nice job with this transition, so rare to see people caring for their users until the end and keeping their word.

I am curious if you've ever looked at PostgREST, i think i've seen Tikhon among ppl who starred it on github. Any comment on it? Thanks

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by johns »

mignev wrote: post #92
squid3 wrote: post #37

The open source Parse Server offers more benefits than hosted parse.com. Many of the benefits are outlined in this blog post: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/what-is-parse-server/ Whatever you are building with Parse Server, Nodechef can help you get there faster. https://www.nodechef.com/parse-server

There are a lot of comparisons between the Parse Open Source and Parse.com as a service ...

Hey maybe tone it down with the sock puppet accounts.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by samblr »

lacker wrote: post #65
samblr wrote: post #20

What are the founders next up to ? Interesting to hear about it.

Ilya's a VC now. http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/09/parse-cofounder-and-y-comb... James and I are still working at Facebook, on other projects.

Cool. How big was team when parse was bought by Facebook ?

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by turblety »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #93

I've spent the last 15 minutes on parse.com, github.com trying to find out what the parse backend actually is. Can someone explain?

I've definitely noticed of a lot of these companies that shutdown/close their doors, that it takes a long time to understand what they actually did/do. A businesses front page should explain what they do to the lay person. Even if your product is aimed at developers, most of the time it's not them buying, but their managers who will not want to guess what it is the company does.

Just 1 paragraph about what you do is all it takes.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by marknadal »

gfosco wrote: post #2

During this year-long shutdown/migration process, the open-source and community maintained Parse Server is what most people switched to. Parse is yours now. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

I second the sentiment that Parse has done a good job of shutting the platform down and giving users warning/notice. I hope the Open Source version takes off (looks like it has, with 12K stars!).

As a shameless plug though, there are other Open Source alternatives though - we wrote a migration guide for ours: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Migrating-from-Parse .

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mignev »

harrisreynolds wrote: post #100
jeyoor wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which BaaS options are recommended now?

Backendless is a solid option: https://backendless.com/

With Backendless you should rewrite your apps, which is not so good :) Anyways ... what will happen when Backendless decide to shut down?
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