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Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by csmajorfive »

jonathankoren wrote: post #69
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.

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 thou…

This is wildly wrong.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by parseuser »

HectorRamos wrote: post #51
parseuser wrote: post #45

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The apps were not disabled. The export feature hasn't been working because of a bug on their end. It seams like the claim that Parse "firmly believes in data portability" is complete BS.

The data export feature was replaced by the database migration tool we launched on January 28 last year. We highly recommend using the database migration tool as this will ensure that all of your data is copied over and synced to your new database prior to switching traffic over. Tons of apps have migrated in the past year using the db migration tool.

It's terrible that you aren't allowing data to be exported anymore. You shouldn't need to setup a server and go through the migration process just to get your data out.

The prior export feature that allowed data to be exported in JSON format was great, but that was left broken without any explantation.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by brennen »

beachy wrote: post #61
geofft wrote: post #56

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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.

I am increasingly inclined to do exactly that.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by alayne »

beachy wrote: post #61
geofft wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why not? I wouldn't choose to develop against SaaS that I knew was going to shut down in 5 years. Parse also said they'd keep running after the buyout.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by csmajorfive »

st3v3r wrote: post #53
dbancajas wrote: post #12

can someone tldr us on what happened to parse?

Facebook bought it. Parse was highly coupled to AWS at the time. They spent some 3 years trying to get it to run on Facebook's cloud, and apparently failed to do so. Facebook decided to cut their losses, and shut it down.

We did have many technical challenges (as would be expected, really) but that wasn't why it ultimately went away.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#77

Post by rawrmaan »

brennen wrote: post #73
beachy wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I am increasingly inclined to do exactly that.

I'm on the same page. My "old = inferior" bias is swiftly wearing off as I gain more experience.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mofirouz »

evan_ wrote: post #49
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.

> Why do you think Parse was a failure in the first place? Because the title of this post is "Parse.com is shutting down today".

Shutting down is not the same as failure

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by [deleted] »

csmajorfive wrote: post #71
jonathankoren wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thou…

This is wildly wrong.

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