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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 j_s »

gamache wrote: post #19
dbancajas wrote: post #12

can someone tldr us on what happened to parse?

Founded 2011, sold to Facebook for $85M in 2013, folded by Facebook in 2016 (though the software was released as open source).

Technically I believe the software was re-implemented as open source; the initial release didn't measure up compared to what Parse offered but the project has grown since then.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by ruslan_talpa »

mmastrac wrote: post #3

I was never a huge fan of parse, having seen startups fail hard when using it, and I've been pretty vocal about that in the past [1]. It was a great idea in principal, but failed pretty hard when faced with the reality of non-toy development. I generally hate to see projects fail, but in this case I'm not terribly upset. I think that people were getting sucked into the ease of getting apps up and running quickly, the…

Just read all your objections to Parse. It seems to me that all of them arise from two core things - You don't have access to database that actually holds the data - The database is MongoDB which is quite young compared to MySQL/Postgres and can't do terribly complicated stuff

The above two things as you said made Parse very inflexible once you get beyond prototype phase.

I think i solved all of your objections in my product (http://graphqlapi.com) which puts the database at the center and the schema drives the api. Internally it uses PostgREST to which i've been a core contributor for more then a year now ... how time flies :)

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mofirouz »

rawrmaan wrote: post #13

Parse was an amazing discovery when I was just starting out my dev career and I've used it in all of my major projects, but it had some serious shortcomings. I wrote about why I think Parse failed from a developer's perspective. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522602

Why do you think Parse was a failure in the first place? Surely, Parse founders got a nice little cash out of the acquisition and Facebook got developers onboard and Facebook Login integrated onto many apps.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by eriknstr »

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

Something I've been wondering is would you recommend using the open source Parse server for new code or is it more targeted towards projects that were already using the Parse API?

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mmastrac »

ruslan_talpa wrote: post #23
mmastrac wrote: post #3

I was never a huge fan of parse, having seen startups fail hard when using it, and I've been pretty vocal about that in the past [1]. It was a great idea in principal, but failed pretty hard when faced with the reality of non-toy development. I generally hate to see projects fail, but in this case I'm not terribly upset. I think that people were getting sucked into the ease of getting apps up and running quickly, the…

Just read all your objections to Parse. It seems to me that all of them arise from two core things - You don't have access to database that actually holds the data - The database is MongoDB which is quite young compared to MySQL/Postgres and can't do terribly complicated stuff The above two things as you said made Parse very inflexible once you get beyond prototype phase. I think i solved all of your objections in my…

That's really awesome! I'm glad to see you've also solved a lot of the req/s issues that Parse had too.

If prototyping tools are done right, I think they are valuable and awesome.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by parseuser »

The export data feature has been broken for months — it’s stuck in the “waiting to begin…” phase. Is there plans to allow people to export their data?

I’d like to get my data out, but both options for exporting data via the dashboard are broken. They also disabled the ability to contact them in regards to the export data functionality.

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