Facebook's stock is up 15% today. If they're this quick to kill off products and services then long term I'm bearish on them. Zuckerberg just came back from paternity leave and he announced a one month vacation next month. I don't think his head's in the game. Get rich and stop trying I guess?
Facebook is closing Parse
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#232Open Sourcing the platform is always the good thing. Probably both Twitter Fabric and CloudBoost.io will be the next Parse out there. CloudBoost.io is open on Docker and is both self-hosted or managed.
Wanted to downvote for spamming the thread with endless cloudboost.io postings... clicked upvote instead. Oh well..
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#233Separately, we developed an open-source Parse-compatible API server for Node/Express. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server This, along with the database migration tools released earlier, allow developers a full migration path to move from Parse hosted data + API to their own infrastructure. Over the weekend, I set up a website & app on a $5 DigitalOcean box running Parse and Mongo locally.
thank you!
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#234A few thought : 1/ parse wasn't a core service for facebook, nor a relevant source of a revenu AND their API wasn't standard. Those points combined made it very risky for people to use it. 2/ since they open sourced their API now, and the service was a paid service, there's a very high probability that someone will very soon create a 100% compatible PAAS. 3/ firebase will be next to shutdown. Not because they suck, b…
Firebase disagrees with you https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/692845862527995904
I agree that Firbase is a ool option and probably safe as they recently took steps to lock it into the google account. Someone will inevitably say google kills projects often, but they probably won't kill this.
Alphabet's strategy seems to be yo onboard new developers and get into mobile.Firebase is a good way to begin that pipeline allowing new devs into googles ecosystem and controlling how tags work on websites by creating their own library and pushing people in.
Why did parse fail though? Seems like a good strategy for Facebook.
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#237Currently 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'm head of developer evangelism at http://pubnub.com and we can handle push notifications for you easily. What is your use case?
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#238Currently 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'm head of developer evangelism at http://pubnub.com and we can handle push notifications for you easily. What is your use case?
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#239A few thought : 1/ parse wasn't a core service for facebook, nor a relevant source of a revenu AND their API wasn't standard. Those points combined made it very risky for people to use it. 2/ since they open sourced their API now, and the service was a paid service, there's a very high probability that someone will very soon create a 100% compatible PAAS. 3/ firebase will be next to shutdown. Not because they suck, b…
I think you're pretty far off the mark when you say that Oculus is at risk if they don't sell enough devices.
Of course, we have to go off of what Oculus and FB says, but they are working to create an ecosystem and market for VR experiences and seem to be pushing VR forward wherever they can; look at Oculus Studio and the work they're doing to create interactive movies, as well as the software deals with partners like Samsung's Gear VR. Plus, VR is one of the three stated future pillars of FB (the other two are AI and Internet-for-all).
I'd be willing to put money on Oculus being around and still being a viable business for FB in three years, even if the Oculus Rift hardware is not a commercial success. If the hardware is not popular, they will still be pushing VR forward in other ways. VR is a huge opportunity and is likely to be the entertainment medium of the future. I sincerely doubt FB is going to be overreacting and shutting down Oculus the way you describe.
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#240It will be funny to see all of the abandoned apps that start failing a year from now. Obscure games, utilities, etc. Most people won't be bothered to go through the stress of an App Store review process to update an old free-to-play app that's not even making them revenue. But how many people's morning commutes will be ruined when their old games or news apps fall apart? The price of progress (and of liquidity), I su…
Sometimes I like to think about how future archaeologists will be writing grand dissertations on the digital detritus we're all leaving behind today.
And all the people who will try to revive 100 old abandoned source projects.