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Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by rawrmaan »

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…

I have no idea what you're talking about. Facebook is very generous with equity for employees and I"m sure the founders got a good deal.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mignev »

squid3 wrote: post #37

The open source Parse Server offers more benefits than hosted parse.com. Many of the benefits are outlined in this blog post: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/what-is-parse-server/ Whatever you are building with Parse Server, Nodechef can help you get there faster. https://www.nodechef.com/parse-server

There are a lot of comparisons between the Parse Open Source and Parse.com as a service ...

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by jonathankoren »

rawrmaan wrote: post #91
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…

I have no idea what you're talking about. Facebook is very generous with equity for employees and I"m sure the founders got a good deal.

I don't give a shit about the founders I'm talking about the employees.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#95

Post by hackerboos »

primitivesuave wrote: post #60
jeyoor wrote: post #44

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Which BaaS options are recommended now?

I second the Firebase recommendation. Facebook killed off their BaaS acquisition while Google doubled down on theirs. If you prefer open-source, Horizon ( http://horizon.io/ ) is a great alternative to Firebase but does not have many of the key features like file storage and iOS/Android SDKs.

Firebase has a few issues.

Take a look at this video and tell me this query and the required data denormalization is acceptable.

https://t.co/xd1KUPc8xY

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#96

Post by Liveanimalcams »

barnaclejive wrote: post #34
eriknstr wrote: post #25

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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?

I have created a few apps using Parse.com, one of them successful enough to take the additional time/cost hit to migrate and host myself using the Parse-Server project. The open source project is great and I appreciate the effort that went into making sure we didn't all get (totally) screwed. Would I use Parse-Server for a new project? Probably not. The state of the BaaS options out there has changed/improved signifi…

but we still got screwed and I still hate facebook because of it.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#97

Post by itsweller »

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.

Baseless conjecture shot down immediately by someone intimately involved with the project is truly something beautiful to behold.

Are you at liberty to discuss the actual reasons and shed a bit more light on why things went down the way they did?

Side note, your product was unbelievably popular at my university. Parse made getting a functional DB up and running for courses and side projects completely painless and a no-brainer for tight deadlines and PoCs.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#98

Post by gfosco »

eriknstr wrote: post #25
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?

I think it depends on your level of expertise and the requirements of your project. Having Parse Server as something you can set up in a few minutes on a VPS and start building a client-server app is great. The integration via the various SDKs is incredible, and it takes a long time to build something like that out. All the available options have their tradeoffs, but I think having the source and an interested community is a great pro in the Parse column.

Re: Parse is shutting down today

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Post by mignev »

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

Hi Fosco ... Thanks to you @flovilmart and the other heroes who made this possible :)

You guys are aweosme!

Re: Parse is shutting down today

#100

Post by harrisreynolds »

jeyoor wrote: post #44
barnaclejive wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have created a few apps using Parse.com, one of them successful enough to take the additional time/cost hit to migrate and host myself using the Parse-Server project. The open source project is great and I appreciate the effort that went into making sure we didn't all get (totally) screwed. Would I use Parse-Server for a new project? Probably not. The state of the BaaS options out there has changed/improved signifi…

Which BaaS options are recommended now?

Backendless is a solid option: https://backendless.com/
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