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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 beachy »

geofft wrote: post #56
mofirouz wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When a marriage ends in divorce, it is fair to call the marriage a failure even if you get a profitable settlement from the divorce and even if you both go on to better marriages. Same reason.

Nice analogy, but we generally don't select development tools on the basis that we want to grow old with them.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by nickpsecurity »

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.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by ruslan_talpa »

bh13731 wrote: post #46

Quick... everyone run to www.graph.cool !! It's parse but for GraphQL!

The way you phrased it almost seem sarcastic in the context of this thread, although i think you are actually recommending them :)

They offer a interesting product but i think at this moment it has the exact same problem that Parse had (my other comment in this thread), you don't have access to the raw data, hope they will do that in the future (provide direct access to the source database), it will certainly be a more interesting/flexible service

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by Mankhool »

GalyaTitova wrote: post #66
Mankhool wrote: post #57

As a non-developer who found Parse extremely easy to use, is there a similar product in the market that I can switch my iPhone app over to?

You can use Parse Server Hosting providers such as sashido.io so you don't have to make many code changes.

Cool. Thanks! I already let all my data go, but it will be great to get my app going again.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by jonathankoren »

mofirouz wrote: post #24
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.

Depends. I don't know what the acquisition price was but given that they're shutting it down, I'm thinking it was in tens of millions range, which makes it an aquihire. Assuming they raised low to mid tens of funding, The investors probably have a 1x or more a preference on the sale. This means the leftover value is in the low to mid ones of millions. I love that you're getting 0.1% So we're talking like ones of thousands of dollars for an engineer after two years of work at probably less than market rate salary.

Given that your equity package at a large company would be is late and 50 times that per year yeah the engineers didn't come out ahead so it's a fail.

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