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I've been a SimpleNote user for a while, great to see the platform layer finally coming out. I have a few questions: - As a potential customer, I'm curious as

I've been a SimpleNote user for a while, great to see the platform layer finally coming out. I have a few questions: - As a potential customer, I'm curious as to how sustainable is the company. I understand there was a YC seed investment in '10, but is the company well funded for the next couple of years at least? - The platform seems to be ahead of Meteor, Firebase, etc, in that it already seems to have implemented a basic login and security model based on expiring tokens, but from the docs it seems like "finer grained control of these permissions are under development". Does this mean that presently any user can erase/modify data from any bucket, such as global data, data from other users, etc? If so, that's a big deterred for me. - Are there any plans to allow querying the data? Key-value stores are fine for simple games, to-do lists, etc, but for any non-trivial app querying arbitrary fields is a basic requirement. Thanks again, those are some great strides in the right direction.

cloudmike 14y ago
By "finer grained control" we mean control over expirations and read/write permissions for a particular token. It's definitely not possible to erase/modify data from other users. An example of where read-only permissions are useful is the live dashboard you see at simperium.com after you sign in. The "number of syncs" and alerts at the top are all pulled live from Simperium, but the token used on that page is a read-only token. We just need to expose the ability to create these read-only tokens to developers. Actually, as a Simplenote user, you might be interested to know that our alerts and blog posts are pulled from Simplenote via Simperium. When we tag a note as "Alert" or "Published" it instantly appears on the dashboard. Regarding querying, we're working on something for apps that can't or don't want to keep all data locally. In the meantime you can locally query however you'd like in your database of choice.
- mainsocial 14y ago
  I'm dying to use this, but the ability to create read-only tokens is important for all the applications I have in mind. Do you have a sense of where this is in your priority queue, or even when you might be able to expose an HTTP endpoint?
  - cloudmike 14y ago
    Yes, support for this is imminent. But I believe you know that now since we're already in touch with you.

cloudmike 14y ago

By "finer grained control" we mean control over expirations and read/write permissions for a particular token. It's definitely not possible to erase/modify data from other users. An example of where read-only permissions are useful is the live dashboard you see at simperium.com after you sign in. The "number of syncs" and alerts at the top are all pulled live from Simperium, but the token used on that page is a read-only token. We just need to expose the ability to create these read-only tokens to developers. Actually, as a Simplenote user, you might be interested to know that our alerts and blog posts are pulled from Simplenote via Simperium. When we tag a note as "Alert" or "Published" it instantly appears on the dashboard. Regarding querying, we're working on something for apps that can't or don't want to keep all data locally. In the meantime you can locally query however you'd like in your database of choice.

mainsocial 14y ago
I'm dying to use this, but the ability to create read-only tokens is important for all the applications I have in mind. Do you have a sense of where this is in your priority queue, or even when you might be able to expose an HTTP endpoint?
- cloudmike 14y ago
  Yes, support for this is imminent. But I believe you know that now since we're already in touch with you.