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Thanks for your comment; regarding your thought, from my perspective there was nothing that Parse provided that was easier than just building the app on Heroku

Thanks for your comment; regarding your thought, from my perspective there was nothing that Parse provided that was easier than just building the app on Heroku ourselves. And we wouldn't have been stuck in the horrible node/javascript ecosystem then! So, I would say, if Parse had been this Parse Server product from the start, that would have been a lot better! But there wasn't really any need for such a thing at my company. We had to use Parse for incestuous "YC alum" reasons---we did not have a technical need for it.

akarve 11y ago
really "incestuous"? firebase is/was a YC company, too. it's sad when cronyism trumps reason.
- jonsterling 11y ago
  Haha, well funny you should mention it---management were also encouraging me to look into using firebase for something too, but I put the kibosh in it because we had had so much trouble with Parse. The truth is, we had no need for any of these products (even though I have heard firebase to be way better than parse); we needed to get serious and just write a little API server + postgres database and toss it on Heroku.