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Au contraire: it opens a wider deeper well. Parse customers are now up for grabs. Do you think they will go back to program back-ends and rent a server? I perso

Au contraire: it opens a wider deeper well. Parse customers are now up for grabs. Do you think they will go back to program back-ends and rent a server? I personally won't. So the supermaket chain where you usually shop at closes its stores for whatever reason. Do you go back to farming your backyard or do you find a new store? The BAAS industry is super young, only hipsters are into it. But it makes sense so it will eventually mature. Bugs will be fixed.

nodamage 11y ago
Switching supermarkets is much, much, easier than switching backends. I'm sure lot more BaaS companies will pop up to grab former Parse customers. I'm not sure how many of those will still be around in another 5 years. I strongly suspect there's something negative about the economics of BaaS services that's being implied by the fact that two of the most successful providers have shut down after acquisition.
- bikamonki 11y ago
  True. I oversimplified. On the other hand: maybe they were acquired to buy the tech but to shutdown the business?
- intrasight 11y ago
  Amazon has fully embraced BaaS. And I don't know of any AWS services they've added and then removed. I think Amazon will be the winner here. MSFT is also starting to embrace BaaS. Of course they have a less stellar history of support.
  - bikamonki 11y ago
    True but they still lack a wrapped and simple to use solution like Parse. That is why I run everything on AWS except the BAAS.
  - stevewilhelm 11y ago
    > Of course they [MSFT] have a less stellar history of support. Microsoft supported products: Azure - six years, .Net & Active Directory - thirteen years, SQL Server - seventeen years, Visual Studio - nineteen years, and Excel - twenty nine years.
argo12 11y ago
That's exactly our thought (hasura.io) while we prepare for our "launch" next week. We've been studying Parse's growth and are definitely going after their market. Our core philosophy with the BaaS is however to keep it as open as possible. We wrote this up in response to Parse shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
- dmitriz 11y ago
  Is it production ready?
  - argo12 11y ago
    Yes! We have over 20 apps build on in during our alpha phase - ranging from e-commerce to payment wallets. Let us know if you'd be interested to try out the beta version releasing next week. You can write to us at build@hasura.io or @HasuraHQ.

nodamage 11y ago

Switching supermarkets is much, much, easier than switching backends. I'm sure lot more BaaS companies will pop up to grab former Parse customers. I'm not sure how many of those will still be around in another 5 years. I strongly suspect there's something negative about the economics of BaaS services that's being implied by the fact that two of the most successful providers have shut down after acquisition.

bikamonki 11y ago
True. I oversimplified. On the other hand: maybe they were acquired to buy the tech but to shutdown the business?
intrasight 11y ago
Amazon has fully embraced BaaS. And I don't know of any AWS services they've added and then removed. I think Amazon will be the winner here. MSFT is also starting to embrace BaaS. Of course they have a less stellar history of support.
- bikamonki 11y ago
  True but they still lack a wrapped and simple to use solution like Parse. That is why I run everything on AWS except the BAAS.
- stevewilhelm 11y ago
  > Of course they [MSFT] have a less stellar history of support. Microsoft supported products: Azure - six years, .Net & Active Directory - thirteen years, SQL Server - seventeen years, Visual Studio - nineteen years, and Excel - twenty nine years.

argo12 11y ago

That's exactly our thought (hasura.io) while we prepare for our "launch" next week. We've been studying Parse's growth and are definitely going after their market. Our core philosophy with the BaaS is however to keep it as open as possible. We wrote this up in response to Parse shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104

dmitriz 11y ago
Is it production ready?
- argo12 11y ago
  Yes! We have over 20 apps build on in during our alpha phase - ranging from e-commerce to payment wallets. Let us know if you'd be interested to try out the beta version releasing next week. You can write to us at build@hasura.io or @HasuraHQ.