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Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by TylerE »

nickpsecurity wrote: post #63
mcescalante wrote: post #4

I have seen a fair number of "abrupt" and poorly executed shutdowns on HN over the last few years, and although I don't use Parse, I feel as though the team did a good job sunsetting this over the last year. Thank you for the product, the open sourced version, and for not ditching your community! Best of luck to everyone who worked on the team

Yeah, that's pretty impressive. YC should consider making it a requirement of funding that the components go open-source if they shutdown without acquisition, etc. Aside from collective benefit, a future, YC startup might get a head start from their docs or components. They seem to fund multiple startups in the same market segments at times.

That would likely be overly onerous...what if they use licensed 3rd party components?

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by pivanov »

I personally believe in Open Source, so I think everybody who want to build mobile app with backend today should use Parse Server. It's open source, no shutdown threat and will become a standard. This is in my opinion and that's why we've build www.SashiDo.io

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by desarun »

primitivesuave wrote: post #60
jeyoor wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which BaaS options are recommended now?

I second the Firebase recommendation. Facebook killed off their BaaS acquisition while Google doubled down on theirs. If you prefer open-source, Horizon ( http://horizon.io/ ) is a great alternative to Firebase but does not have many of the key features like file storage and iOS/Android SDKs.

Watch out for the hidden costs.

As I found out today if you want the analytics data in CSV, or query it to any level that's useful beyond "We have 5 users in Stockholm on KitKat", you'll need the next service tier up, which is $25 per month per project.

But if you want basic analytics, then it's free & easy.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by parseuser »

mcescalante wrote: post #4

I have seen a fair number of "abrupt" and poorly executed shutdowns on HN over the last few years, and although I don't use Parse, I feel as though the team did a good job sunsetting this over the last year. Thank you for the product, the open sourced version, and for not ditching your community! Best of luck to everyone who worked on the team

They did a great job with Parse server, but unfortunately for people who just wants their data they basically have been abandoned.

Exporting data in JSON format is no longer supported. The featured has been left broken without any explanation, and they disabled the ability to contact them in regards to data export.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by hkmurakami »

TylerE wrote: post #111
nickpsecurity wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's pretty impressive. YC should consider making it a requirement of funding that the components go open-source if they shutdown without acquisition, etc. Aside from collective benefit, a future, YC startup might get a head start from their docs or components. They seem to fund multiple startups in the same market segments at times.

That would likely be overly onerous...what if they use licensed 3rd party components?

And in such a case, an Open Source mandate would directly conflict with the financial interests of the investors (the time required for the effort takes away from the liquidation amount of the remaining assets.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by vning93 »

I loved Parse from the time I first started using it in college. It started out as a really handy way to spin up small apps quickly so I could start beta testing my app quickly with real users.

One of the main problems though was that it really felt like just a prototyping tool to me, and I never really used it for real apps in production.

Thus, for my latest project that I've been working on for several months now, I've decided to try in every way to address that problem. I started a company called Scaphold.io (https://scaphold.io) and it's a GraphQL backend as a service platform. It serves to address many of the same needs of Parse and more. It combines all the best data modeling tools from Parse and real-time capabilities from Firebase to provide a high-fidelity app development experience that you can actually build real production apps on, with as much transparency to your data as possible. That's the mission that we have at Scaphold, and I'm excited to be helping all the stranded app developers out there that were burned by Parse shutting down.

Excited to see what comes next for the app development world!

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by reilly3000 »

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?

Parse was a backend as a service that allowed for a cloud hosted database to be connected with web and mobile apps with simple JavaScript. It was a lovely tool for hackathons. They could also run arbitrary JS in response to events at scale. It competed with Firebase until they were acquired by Facebook.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by reilly3000 »

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?

Parse was a backend as a service that allowed for a cloud hosted database to be connected with web and mobile apps with simple JavaScript. It was a lovely tool for hackathons. They could also run arbitrary JS in response to events at scale. It competed with Firebase until they were acquired by Facebook.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by jcoffland »

turblety wrote: post #106
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…

This is so basic. It's amazing how many projects fail to do this. A common one I've noticed is to have a news feed or blog roll right at the top of the front page. It makes lots of sense to everyone involved in the project but none to potential new users.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by MaverickAgile »

We was parse.com lovers for many years and we did a lot of projects.. After January 2016 we turned to firebase as new BaaS but you need to rewrite a lot of code and change the way you catch events and actions. In November 2016 we discovered https://www.sashido.io and we tried all of their services and support. Today we are happy client of SaShido dashboard, we can use all of parse.com github opensource sdk and SaShido is growing on new great options like liveQueries.. So we can say that "Parse.com is still alive in SaShido.io"!! Good job guys!
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