Parse is different from Heroku is a very big way - vendor lock-in. You are using the Parse libraries, DB, push notifications, etc, and replacing that will be q

Parse is different from Heroku is a very big way - vendor lock-in. You are using the Parse libraries, DB, push notifications, etc, and replacing that will be quite difficult. Heroku, on the other hand, is usually just a generic Rails stack (or java or clojure), which is easily moved.