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I'm pretty happy with Firebase compared to other platforms I used. At this point I'm using all major components including hosting, firestore, cloud storage, clo

I'm pretty happy with Firebase compared to other platforms I used. At this point I'm using all major components including hosting, firestore, cloud storage, cloud functions, etc. I wrote up a whole design document of how we designed our app a few months back: https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/03/building-cloud-sync-on-google-firebase.html https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/03/building-cloud-sync-on-go... I think the biggest thing I miss is having some sort of full-text search support for the JSON storage. I'm used to having Elasticearch so this was a big of a headache. One of the nice things is that you can use some of the easier things in Firebase but also dive down and use more lower level components in Google Cloud when necessary. For example, I might need a more complex caching CDN for our server-side rendered pages and I might end up deploying that next. I definitely hope Google stays competitive here as it will make my job a lot easier.

mrtksn 7y ago
Yes, they suggest using something like Algola for text search. Yesterday, I was galavanting their marketplace for apps that you can use in your GCP and I like the idea a lot. I think they are doing something similar for Firebase and call it "Firebase Extensions". I think this can also be another gold rush. I was hoping to find Cryptocurrency exchange ticker dataset(but there were only at low resolution). I think Salesforce has such a marketplace where developers write apps for automating things, enable things, sell data and so on. Would be nice to have a standardized API marketplace. So much potential there. Easy to start with and a lot of depth if you want to dive deeper.
- burtonator 7y ago
  The extensions/plugins are kind of cool in that they build in a bunch pre-existing functionality like automatic thumbnail generation for uploaded images. There's definitely a ton of 3rd party plugins / innovation that could happen here much the way Intercom, etc was able to build on top of other people's data.
  - mrtksn 7y ago
    Ditto, the area is getting ripe for exploitation IMHO.
lowdose 7y ago
Are you considering training a ML model to automatically generate questions based on highlighted text for the anki-system?

mrtksn 7y ago

Yes, they suggest using something like Algola for text search. Yesterday, I was galavanting their marketplace for apps that you can use in your GCP and I like the idea a lot. I think they are doing something similar for Firebase and call it "Firebase Extensions". I think this can also be another gold rush. I was hoping to find Cryptocurrency exchange ticker dataset(but there were only at low resolution). I think Salesforce has such a marketplace where developers write apps for automating things, enable things, sell data and so on. Would be nice to have a standardized API marketplace. So much potential there. Easy to start with and a lot of depth if you want to dive deeper.

burtonator 7y ago
The extensions/plugins are kind of cool in that they build in a bunch pre-existing functionality like automatic thumbnail generation for uploaded images. There's definitely a ton of 3rd party plugins / innovation that could happen here much the way Intercom, etc was able to build on top of other people's data.
- mrtksn 7y ago
  Ditto, the area is getting ripe for exploitation IMHO.

lowdose 7y ago

Are you considering training a ML model to automatically generate questions based on highlighted text for the anki-system?