I just started developing something in parse in the last 2 months, i really really liked the platform, this totally sucks. Does anyone have any recommendations for alternatives with similar features?
Did you check out CloudBoost.io?
Facebook is closing Parse
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#153Why did this happen?
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#154Just signed up for a new account .. new beta dashboard looks sleek. Are they open sourcing the ReactJS code ?
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#155Which alternatives would people recommend?
did you check out CloudBoost.io? Its open and on Docker if you want a self hosted option or you can go with managed service at CloudBoost.io
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
...except being able to integrate with an API does not mean you have the ability to self host, run, and maintain the product.
If you can't self-host because you don't have the ability to, but can't use cloud services either because they could shut down, what alternatives do remain?
Not betting on just anybody who launches.
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#157Currently using Parse for Push notifications (it's simple to send a request to Parse and it handles iOS vs Android issues). Is there any tool out there that has similar functionality? Ie. you register all your users devices there and they simplify the sending of push notifications.
I just created an account on OneSignal: https://onesignal.com/
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#158Er, what happened here? Parse was a great product.
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#159It's really hard to build trust when products disappear. Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar. Recall all of the wonderful social graph access that once existed and see, now, the wake of crippled API's where they once lived. Since it is impossible to build everything from scratch, some compromise must be made, but I wonder whether that compromise can reas…
What's even more ridiculous is that their homepage says: From startups to the Fortune 500, hundreds of thousands of developers *trust us*. Trust you to what? Pull the rug out at some point? Why they even put that word on the HP is a separate question.
Trust you to stay in business long enough that they can make money until the unavoidable demise.
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#160It seems that no few months can pass without some "X as a service" gets shut down.
I basically now have the following assumption by default every time I see a new startup:
What ever they are doing now, it will probably be shutdown within the next 4 years (assuming it gets any success at all in the first place).