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Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Which BaaS options are recommended now?

I haven't used it, but firebase is popular.

Yes it's google behind ... but you should rewrite the whole application. That's why I respect Facebook about their decision to opensource the Parse Server. The is the beginning of the Open Backend world. With Parse Open Source everybody will get Personal MBaaS :)

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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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…

I have to agree with @csmajorfive - This is quite wrong from both a factual numeric point of view as well as guesstimates on what percentage that investors/founders/employees got.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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A key takeaway from this; and one of the main reasons parse failed-- don't name a company or service after an extremely generic programming term.

Parse failed for a lot of reasons but I hated it because the documentation was terrible at the beginning and used to get me stuck in a forever loop of links. So I searched for additonal info:

"Parse javascript"

"Parse website library"

"Parse programming"

Admittedly contrived examples. But the point i am making is pretty clear.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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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.

Email migration@parse.com for generic last-moment migration assistance.

Thanks, but unfortunately they just replied with a canned email about their migration guide.

There doesn't appear be any way to simply export data anymore.

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