It works if you think of it on this level: The goal of Parse is to make server stuff really easy for mobile development. The goal of Heroku was to make server

It works if you think of it on this level: The goal of Parse is to make server stuff really easy for mobile development. The goal of Heroku was to make server stuff really easy for Rails development. Of course the analogy breaks down once you try to be more specific with what "server stuff" means. ;-)