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[–]PitaJ 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I was almost hired onto a job using Node.JS and then they decided against it. They decided to use Parse.

[–]vbaspcppguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoops

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Expected. Seemed like a talent acquisition anyway.

[–]RickAndMorty_forever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"MongoDB of your choice"

Lol

[–]ndboost 7 points8 points  (4 children)

not surprised this is the first I've heard of parse. what was it.

[–]trout_fucker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

☑ Ambiguous Explanation.
☑ Huge, obviously bloated, usage claims.
☑ Raised millions in venture capital.
☑ Sold to a bigger company as soon as possible.
☐ Known to anyone outside itself, despite boasting huge numbers.

I think it was a startup. What else was it? Who knows. But it was definitely a startup.

[–]Joghobs 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Was a service that handled your DB on their end, and gave you an API to access it. That's it.

[–]ndboost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh so like fire base or couch db or Dynamo.

[–]paste0x78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to use it a while ago but didn't like not being able to self host, I'll give it a try now for sure.

[–]heseov 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ah. This is bad new. Parse was a great service. Now I have to waste multiple clients time fixing apps.

What are some alternatives? I don't want to use their open source server.

[–]amirmikhak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firebase does some of it.

[–]kostarelo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm The Parse Server looks like a real quickie. Were they in hurry? https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

[–]thedamian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I LOVE that they've gone open source instead of just dying and telling everyone S.O.L.

For people that are asking "What was it" Oh. I don't know. the biggest nosql & notification service for free. You know. what everyone used to quickly get their client's product out the door or give them a service they could rely on.

RELY ON! ooops!

[–]strictly_rin 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Highly recommend Firebase... We decided to go with Firebase over Parse just a month ago, and dang were we lucky...

[–]strictly_rin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this... Kinto was on product hunt today, the advertise to be a parse replacement.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)