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Firebase is owned by google. There are plenty of OSS solutions to create this exact realtime thing without getting too close to the elephant in the room.

• easrng 4y ago
  I don't think it was owned by google when hn started using it for the API.
  • gkoberger 4y ago
    I think using Google or not is pretty irrelevant, but I looked because I was curious. This repo started in 2015, and Firebase was bought in 2014. I'm really surprised; I thought it was way more recent than that.
    • easrng 4y ago
      The oldest snapshot from the domain on the wayback machine is from 12 days before it was acquired, and the API might be older than that.
• somishere 4y ago
  Switch to Supabase?