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Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

Kiro 13y ago
Just use Parse. What's the problem?
Maarten88 13y ago
Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
- rmason 13y ago
  http://www.firebase.com http://www.firebase.com and https://www.backlift.com/index.html https://www.backlift.com/index.html
aespinoza 13y ago
Check us out: http://iknode.com http://iknode.com
cgshaw 13y ago
Check out Kinvey — http://www.kinvey.com/ http://www.kinvey.com/
markerdmann 13y ago
http://helios.io/ http://helios.io/ is an open-source backend framework.
- anotherbadlogin 13y ago
  Looks like that's only for iOS.
- namuol 13y ago
  (iOS only)
- bennyg 13y ago
  Looks sweet, thanks for the recommendation. Whenever I get a box I'll look into using this for Push services.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
jchrisa 13y ago
https://github.com/couchbase/mobile https://github.com/couchbase/mobile json database sync
Ranma 13y ago
CloudMine is #2 in the mBaaS space
DanielRibeiro 13y ago
Stackmob[1] and Urban Airship[2], depending on what you'd use it for [1] https://www.stackmob.com/ https://www.stackmob.com/ [2] http://urbanairship.com/ http://urbanairship.com/
crabasa 13y ago
Cloudmine - https://cloudmine.me https://cloudmine.me Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
- tartuffe78 13y ago
  No offense, but suggesting Microsoft to a guy who is turned off by Facebook made me chuckle
  - shirederby 13y ago
    His issue seems to be a fear that Parse will be "integrated" into Facebook and its walled-garden-philosophy, rather than presented as a serious B2B offering. That wouldn't be as much as a problem with Microsoft.
  - adventured 13y ago
    The difference is Microsoft isn't buying anyone, it's their own service. The guy is turned off by the notion of what's about to happen to Parse, not just that they're being bought. The context matters.
deleted 13y ago
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danielsiders 13y ago
Tent (https://tent.io https://tent.io)
SidneyAllen 13y ago
Check out http://www.stackmob.com http://www.stackmob.com Open Source SDKs iOS SDK built with Core Data Great developer community and support
romain_dardour 13y ago
http://hull.io http://hull.io - social platform as a service
- anotherbadlogin 13y ago
  Sort of unrelated, but do you know what tool they use to create that little animation on their home page (the cursor and screens popping up)?
akurilin 13y ago
http://buddy.com/ http://buddy.com/ Options are truly abundant in this space.
benatkin 13y ago
There's UserGrid, which is open source: https://developers.apigee.com/app-services https://developers.apigee.com/app-services
- ing33k 13y ago
  This ones pretty cool, but documentation doesn’t really catchup with that others. but do check it out..
idea_shot 13y ago
There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service
- benatkin 13y ago
  That chart is quite entertaining. Too complex to be accurate but very informative.
  - seansmith23 13y ago
    It's not even close to being accurate. StackMob has multiple official partnerships with companies on that list that include full integrations, not just compatibility, but you only see one line of integration to Heroku. It would take 30 seconds worth of research to show how inaccurate that chart is.
namuol 13y ago
http://deployd.com/ http://deployd.com/
dweekly 13y ago
Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though. So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.
- monkeyspaw 13y ago
  As someone in a similar situation: I don't like tie ins with huge companies. My experience with the Facebook API has been horrible in the past (constantly changing, poor documentation). In short, I don't want FB/Goog/Apple/etc. to keep buying up the independent operators that I know and love. In a similar way, I prefer to frequent my local coffee shack over a Starbucks. Nothing Starbucks could do would really change my mind. There's not really anything facebook could do other than not being facebook. Sorry.
  - dweekly 13y ago
    I'm really sorry you've had bad experiences with the API. :/ I'm not sure how much consolation it will be to you, but we've gotten a lot better about this, even in the last year, increasing platform stability, improving our documentation, adding guides and Developers Live, giving 90+ day heads ups for breaking changes that you can opt-in to. Facebook's definitely not going to stop changing and sit on its laurels; our Platform is going to evolve as well. I know this means work for developers but we'd like to do so hand-in-hand with our community, working together to build a better future. We're learning how to do that. We've made mistakes. But we're here for you and are trying every day to give you more. Email me at dew@fb.com if you prefer to rant in a private forum, or here and I'll respond.
- dudurocha 13y ago
  I think he is worried, thinking facebook may kill Parse, and he will have no support.
  - 13y ago
jjsz 13y ago
There's backlift [https://www.backlift.com/ https://www.backlift.com/] that connects to Dropbox.
buzzrecords 13y ago
Buddy.com; StackMob; Kinvey; Appcelerator Cloud, etc... There's a bunch out there. Buddy has advanced analytics, Kinvey charges by the user (vs. by APIs), StackMob basically runs an affiliate model upselling companion services.
malandrew 13y ago
StackMob I think is in this space as well.
gimenete 13y ago
In my company we are developing http://backbeam.io/ http://backbeam.io/ It is still in beta but just for a couple of weeks. In general it is similar to parse.com but it has also heavy support for developing web applications hosted on backbeam (optinally with custom domain). It also has a more powerful query language, a real-time API and great support to manipulate files (you can escale images in different ways just by changing parameters in a URL). Each project has two environments and you can browse the databases visually taking special care of relationships between entities. The website is being redesigned and the documentation is work in progress. This is an example of a complex query to the database: select('news').query('join author join last 5 comments having score > ? fetch author', min_score) We are open to comments and suggestions :)
sarbogast 13y ago
Funny how StackMob quickly put together a migration page: https://developer.stackmob.com/parse/migration https://developer.stackmob.com/parse/migration
- seansmith23 13y ago
  We had been getting lots of requests for a migration tool prior to the announcement.
mattyc 13y ago
If you're an enterprise developer, AnyPresence is a great option. Hands down the best MBaaS for enterprise, and the ONLY solution that won't lock you in (i.e., you own not just the data, but also the run-time components (code, server, etc). Check them out - http://www.anypresence.com http://www.anypresence.com.
- aespinoza 13y ago
  iKnode doesn't lock you in at all. ;)

Kiro 13y ago

Just use Parse. What's the problem?

Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

rmason 13y ago
http://www.firebase.com http://www.firebase.com and https://www.backlift.com/index.html https://www.backlift.com/index.html

aespinoza 13y ago

Check us out: http://iknode.com http://iknode.com

cgshaw 13y ago

Check out Kinvey — http://www.kinvey.com/ http://www.kinvey.com/

markerdmann 13y ago

http://helios.io/ http://helios.io/ is an open-source backend framework.

anotherbadlogin 13y ago
Looks like that's only for iOS.
namuol 13y ago
(iOS only)
bennyg 13y ago
Looks sweet, thanks for the recommendation. Whenever I get a box I'll look into using this for Push services.
deleted 13y ago
[deleted]

jchrisa 13y ago

https://github.com/couchbase/mobile https://github.com/couchbase/mobile json database sync

Ranma 13y ago

CloudMine is #2 in the mBaaS space

DanielRibeiro 13y ago

Stackmob[1] and Urban Airship[2], depending on what you'd use it for [1] https://www.stackmob.com/ https://www.stackmob.com/ [2] http://urbanairship.com/ http://urbanairship.com/

crabasa 13y ago

Cloudmine - https://cloudmine.me https://cloudmine.me Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

tartuffe78 13y ago
No offense, but suggesting Microsoft to a guy who is turned off by Facebook made me chuckle
- shirederby 13y ago
  His issue seems to be a fear that Parse will be "integrated" into Facebook and its walled-garden-philosophy, rather than presented as a serious B2B offering. That wouldn't be as much as a problem with Microsoft.
- adventured 13y ago
  The difference is Microsoft isn't buying anyone, it's their own service. The guy is turned off by the notion of what's about to happen to Parse, not just that they're being bought. The context matters.

deleted 13y ago

[deleted]

danielsiders 13y ago

Tent (https://tent.io https://tent.io)

SidneyAllen 13y ago

Check out http://www.stackmob.com http://www.stackmob.com Open Source SDKs iOS SDK built with Core Data Great developer community and support

romain_dardour 13y ago

http://hull.io http://hull.io - social platform as a service

anotherbadlogin 13y ago
Sort of unrelated, but do you know what tool they use to create that little animation on their home page (the cursor and screens popping up)?

akurilin 13y ago

http://buddy.com/ http://buddy.com/ Options are truly abundant in this space.

benatkin 13y ago

There's UserGrid, which is open source: https://developers.apigee.com/app-services https://developers.apigee.com/app-services

ing33k 13y ago
This ones pretty cool, but documentation doesn’t really catchup with that others. but do check it out..

idea_shot 13y ago

There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service

benatkin 13y ago
That chart is quite entertaining. Too complex to be accurate but very informative.
- seansmith23 13y ago
  It's not even close to being accurate. StackMob has multiple official partnerships with companies on that list that include full integrations, not just compatibility, but you only see one line of integration to Heroku. It would take 30 seconds worth of research to show how inaccurate that chart is.

namuol 13y ago

http://deployd.com/ http://deployd.com/

dweekly 13y ago

Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though. So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.

monkeyspaw 13y ago
As someone in a similar situation: I don't like tie ins with huge companies. My experience with the Facebook API has been horrible in the past (constantly changing, poor documentation). In short, I don't want FB/Goog/Apple/etc. to keep buying up the independent operators that I know and love. In a similar way, I prefer to frequent my local coffee shack over a Starbucks. Nothing Starbucks could do would really change my mind. There's not really anything facebook could do other than not being facebook. Sorry.
- dweekly 13y ago
  I'm really sorry you've had bad experiences with the API. :/ I'm not sure how much consolation it will be to you, but we've gotten a lot better about this, even in the last year, increasing platform stability, improving our documentation, adding guides and Developers Live, giving 90+ day heads ups for breaking changes that you can opt-in to. Facebook's definitely not going to stop changing and sit on its laurels; our Platform is going to evolve as well. I know this means work for developers but we'd like to do so hand-in-hand with our community, working together to build a better future. We're learning how to do that. We've made mistakes. But we're here for you and are trying every day to give you more. Email me at dew@fb.com if you prefer to rant in a private forum, or here and I'll respond.
dudurocha 13y ago
I think he is worried, thinking facebook may kill Parse, and he will have no support.
- 13y ago

jjsz 13y ago

There's backlift [https://www.backlift.com/ https://www.backlift.com/] that connects to Dropbox.

buzzrecords 13y ago

Buddy.com; StackMob; Kinvey; Appcelerator Cloud, etc... There's a bunch out there. Buddy has advanced analytics, Kinvey charges by the user (vs. by APIs), StackMob basically runs an affiliate model upselling companion services.

malandrew 13y ago

StackMob I think is in this space as well.

gimenete 13y ago

In my company we are developing http://backbeam.io/ http://backbeam.io/ It is still in beta but just for a couple of weeks. In general it is similar to parse.com but it has also heavy support for developing web applications hosted on backbeam (optinally with custom domain). It also has a more powerful query language, a real-time API and great support to manipulate files (you can escale images in different ways just by changing parameters in a URL). Each project has two environments and you can browse the databases visually taking special care of relationships between entities. The website is being redesigned and the documentation is work in progress. This is an example of a complex query to the database: select('news').query('join author join last 5 comments having score > ? fetch author', min_score) We are open to comments and suggestions :)

sarbogast 13y ago

Funny how StackMob quickly put together a migration page: https://developer.stackmob.com/parse/migration https://developer.stackmob.com/parse/migration

seansmith23 13y ago
We had been getting lots of requests for a migration tool prior to the announcement.

mattyc 13y ago

If you're an enterprise developer, AnyPresence is a great option. Hands down the best MBaaS for enterprise, and the ONLY solution that won't lock you in (i.e., you own not just the data, but also the run-time components (code, server, etc). Check them out - http://www.anypresence.com http://www.anypresence.com.

aespinoza 13y ago
iKnode doesn't lock you in at all. ;)