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   by mayop100 15y ago

   The basic idea for hooking up a server, is that the server will act like any other client, except it will authenticate with an API key and have full read / write access. This server can perform data validation for you. All you need to do is
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   (Founder of Firebase here) - The answer here is an emphatic, unequivocal yes. What BaaS providers like us do is create generic apis to allow developers to do the common operations that already can do with their own server code. Everything t
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   We make no claim that the service will be free. It won't be. We'll charge based on usage, in the same way other PaaS type providers do.
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   Firebase is a lot more than a database with a REST API. It pushes changes to you live, as they happen, in a way that is fast enough that you can use it for real-time gaming, collaborative whiteboards, and other apps could never work with a
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   It uses a variety of techniques, depending on what is available on the client. When possible we use web sockets in the browser, but have other methods we can use when they're not available.
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   Thanks for sharing this! Too busy in chat to keep up with all the HN comments : )
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   Everyone has been building their own real-time solutions for the past few years and re-inventing the wheel over and over again. We saw ourselves doing it too, so we thought maybe we should do something about it! We think Meteor is really ex
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   Thank you! Glad you like it!
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   by mayop100 15y ago

   Good catch : ) We mention this briefly in our FAQ. We actually do have security in place (notice you can't enumerate other people's data for instance in our own tutorial), but the API is far from complete and we have no docs yet. There will
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    The actual Firebase website is at http://www.firebase.com (there didn't seem to be a link in the article).
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    ‘Firebase’ Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs(wired.com)

    126 points by mayop100 15y ago|20 comments
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    hah. very nice! Figures HN'ers would find this immediately.
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Yeah. We broke it up into a bunch of smaller individual games that people get assigned to.
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Nice job with the single player versioN!
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Check out the data behind the game: http://mmoa0.firebase.com/asteroids0
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Wow... best. thing. ever!! Thank you : )
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    No, it just randomly assigns them right now...
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    Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids(mmoasteroids.com)

    197 points by mayop100 15y ago|64 comments
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    This should definitely be made permanent.
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    4 AM on a Sunday is my prime working hours : ) Glad we could help keep morale up!
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Couldn't agree more. I see many people applying to incubators who plan to return to their day jobs if they don't get in -- if that's their mindset I don't think they are ready to take the plunge. To be an entrepreneur you need to be ready t
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    Auto-tweet your Google Search History(overshareme.com)

    7 points by mayop100 15y ago|0 comments
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    I agree.
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Here we just posted our 2011 story and Anand shares our 2010 one. I guess it is a little more out-of-the-ordinary : )
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    2011: A good year for Envolve(envolve.com)

    5 points by mayop100 15y ago|0 comments
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    Short answer - no. Some will participate in seed rounds if they intend to follow up in a series A. This is rare though, and $100k even at the seed stage is tiny for a VC.
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    HN Discount for Silicon Valley Human Rights Conf(rightscon.org)

    15 points by mayop100 15y ago|4 comments
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    Envolve looking for Designer / Frontend Engineer to build real-time interfaces

    1 points by mayop100 15y ago
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    Envolve looking for Engineer, Designer, and Marketing Manager(envolve.com)

    1 points by mayop100 15y ago
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    by mayop100 15y ago

    We think so : ) Do you have an app that needs this? Can you say a bit about your needs?