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PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Post by whatsthenews »

good article, enjoyed the little storytelling even if a bit distracting. i think most folks on here are going to be super critical about them starting on a NoSQL database in the first place when it was very likely that relational would have been the way to go from the start, but sometimes you just need to get something off the ground and Firestore can be the fastest to do so (not recommending fwiw). we were also one of those “thousands” of startups that started with it and migrated off after a few years too - so might be a bit biased there - but it all worked out in the end

Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Post by protus »

Not sure if this company also ran into this issue, but the engineers at my startup absolutely hated the Firebase UI for querying. Genuinely could not fathom how product designers could put together such a poor experience. Needless to say we did our own migration after 1 year to MySQL after

Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Post by whatsthenews »

lumos wrote: post #3

Document dbs, like crypto cycles, keep coming in and out of the zeitgeist...why? I just don't understand how purportedly smart engineers keep falling for the same traps over and over

mistakes will always be made at all stages, imo the key differentiator is how quickly they course correct and iterate

Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Post by zerodayz »

whatsthenews wrote: post #2

good article, enjoyed the little storytelling even if a bit distracting. i think most folks on here are going to be super critical about them starting on a NoSQL database in the first place when it was very likely that relational would have been the way to go from the start, but sometimes you just need to get something off the ground and Firestore can be the fastest to do so (not recommending fwiw). we were also one…

lol I agree re:storytelling - thought it was a nice touch. gave the article a bit of flair that was more interesting to read than many eng blog posts that can be otherwise pretty dry

Re: PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore

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Post by i_rush_carriers »

lumos wrote: post #3

Document dbs, like crypto cycles, keep coming in and out of the zeitgeist...why? I just don't understand how purportedly smart engineers keep falling for the same traps over and over

That’s offensive to the innovation happening in crypto to be honest, compared to the lack of it in the non-relational database world
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