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Maybe its not such a good idea after all to code your app to a proprietary API in the cloud.

• duncan_bayne 11y ago
  ... or a walled garden like iOS. But of course people will keep doing it, and keep complaining when the inevitable happens. https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
  • sosborn 11y ago
    The walled garden has nothing to do with this.
    • duncan_bayne 11y ago
      ... which is why I used the word 'or'.
• sktrdie 11y ago
  There is no such thing as "proprietary API". There are proprietary implementations...
  • dragonwriter 11y ago
    > There is no such thing as "proprietary API". I see you are unfamiliar with Oracle v. Google.
  • deleted 11y ago
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• peterhadlaw 11y ago
  They were kind enough to release a compatible server for users to migrate to their own infrastructure to.
• zenojevski 11y ago
  …except that this just has just become an open-source API that is self-hosted?
  • xd1936 11y ago
    Luckily, this time. Not all startups who provide a service like this may choose to do the same when they implode.
    • disbelief 11y ago
      Also many (the majority?) of Parse users signed up with them so that they wouldn't have to self host anything.
      • malka 11y ago
        yes. Meaning there is a market to fill. Too small to be of interest to Facebook, but I'm sure people will build business upon the open source server.
      • abiox 11y ago
        using a service and using open source/open standards/etc aren't mutually exclusive things.
  • rokhayakebe 11y ago
    ...except being able to integrate with an API does not mean you have the ability to self host, run, and maintain the product.
    • zenojevski 11y ago
      If you can't self-host because you don't have the ability to, but can't use cloud services either because they could shut down, what alternatives do remain?
      • nawazdhandala 11y ago
• mhurron 11y ago
  'Someone once asked Slick Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why he robbed banks. Sutton looked a little surprised, as if he had been asked “Why does a smoker light a cigarette?” “I rob banks because that’s where the money is,” he said, obviously meaning “in the most compact form.”' Why do you develop against a proprietary API? Because that's where the users are.
  • duaneb 11y ago
    Why does your user care what API you use?
    • benwilber0 11y ago
      yeah this makes no sense
  • abiox 11y ago
    "the users" are at "a proprietary API"? this seems like a curious notion.
    • hanspeter 11y ago
      He likely misunderstood everything and is talking about the Facebook Platform ATI.
• sosborn 11y ago
  I would amend this to say "its not such a good idea after all to code your app to a proprietary API in the cloud without a plan B"
• chasing 11y ago
  Maybe it's also not such a good idea to claim you know everyone else's needs and constraints...
• brandonmenc 11y ago
  > Maybe its not such a good idea after all to code your app to a proprietary API in the cloud. That's why you write an adapter.
  • iheart2code 11y ago
    That's exactly what I did. I wrote a wrapper around their REST API. Feeling pretty good about that decision right about now.
    • license2e 11y ago
      Same here! This is a great lesson to newer developers... :)