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We're working on a no-backend solution to help developers build great entirely client-side cloud apps. We provide a set of API's that can be used if you host on

by owenwil 12y ago

We're working on a no-backend solution to help developers build great entirely client-side cloud apps. We provide a set of API's that can be used if you host on our platform or off it, and they work with any language. There are Restful API's for user authentication/signup, data management and more, as well as an easy way to get your app hooked up with other cloud API's like Twitter/Spotify/Facebook in a client-side app, which has been quite tricky until now. We provide a Javascript library for these apps but you can also roll your own, since all our APIs are documented and are simple get/post requests. It's quite a new space so there's only a handful of companies doing this; Hoodie is one of the others that is most notable. Would love to hear what HackerNews thinks and happy to answer any questions.

k__ 12y ago
What's the difference between your service and Hoodie, GoInstant and Firebase?
- owenwil 12y ago
  We're somewhat similar to GoInstant (not so much Hoodie) but the difference is we're building out a platform with a lot of features to help make development easier as well as faster. You can connect your app up to Github or Dropbox to sync your code on the fly, for example. Or, you can use our environments feature to create a clone of your production code to work on new features in a sandbox. We've got some unique features, such the ability to connect with other cloud apps' API's such as Xero, Spotify or Twitter in your client-side app. In the future, we'll also have Billing API's so you can quickly charge your app's customers, a search API for client-side apps so that Google can index them correctly and are looking at building out a marketplace so developers are able to on-sell their apps to others too. Firebase's offering is similar to our Data API, but the differentiation is that we've built out a number of other features around it that are complementary and add value for developers, as well as offering hosting for them.
  - k__ 12y ago
    Sounds nice! I tried GoInstant, but didn't like the coding-style of the API.

by owenwil 12y ago

k__ 12y ago

What's the difference between your service and Hoodie, GoInstant and Firebase?

owenwil 12y ago
We're somewhat similar to GoInstant (not so much Hoodie) but the difference is we're building out a platform with a lot of features to help make development easier as well as faster. You can connect your app up to Github or Dropbox to sync your code on the fly, for example. Or, you can use our environments feature to create a clone of your production code to work on new features in a sandbox. We've got some unique features, such the ability to connect with other cloud apps' API's such as Xero, Spotify or Twitter in your client-side app. In the future, we'll also have Billing API's so you can quickly charge your app's customers, a search API for client-side apps so that Google can index them correctly and are looking at building out a marketplace so developers are able to on-sell their apps to others too. Firebase's offering is similar to our Data API, but the differentiation is that we've built out a number of other features around it that are complementary and add value for developers, as well as offering hosting for them.
- k__ 12y ago
  Sounds nice! I tried GoInstant, but didn't like the coding-style of the API.