I used Parse a few years ago to serve as a backend for a simple event aggregation app. It was incredibly simple to use and integrate with. I probably spent on t

I used Parse a few years ago to serve as a backend for a simple event aggregation app. It was incredibly simple to use and integrate with. I probably spent on the order of ~1hr reading documentation and another 2 hours doing some quick and dirty implementation before having a functioning Android app. It's too bad it's shutting down, but I can't say I didn't see this coming after the Facebook aquisition.