As a designer who builds out a lot of early prototypes for testing, Parse is really amazing. Previously I'd do some localStorage hacks to store simple data for

As a designer who builds out a lot of early prototypes for testing, Parse is really amazing. Previously I'd do some localStorage hacks to store simple data for prototype demos but since it was just on one machine it was really limited. Now I use Parse for all mock backends and can "mock" entire user authentication flows, objects being created/edited/saved, first-use state (no objects), secondary use state, error and success messages, the whole thing. I put "mock" in quotes because my prototypes are now essentially MVPs with real data being stored and accessed. It's pretty incredible.