Ask HN: Who uses Parse?

4 pointsby hobonumber112 anni fa5 comments

I'm a heavy Parse user (http://parse.com) and am considering building a developer-focussed product on top of Parse. I'm interested to know how many of you guys are currently using or have previously used Parse.

Thanks for replying!

5 comments

karmanmike12 anni fa

We used parse for the DB of our game on Playstation Mobile. Really enjoyed developing with the service but the app never saw a huge amount of traffic.

Plan on trying it out with a few larger jobs in the near future. http://karmaninteractive.com/2013tikirush/

juddernaught12 anni fa

I use Parse Cloud, the express framework, for creating an endpoint which can send push notifications to specific iOS devices.

hobonumber112 anni fa

I'm specifically curious to know how many people have used Parse Core (the cloud DB service).

anonfunction12 anni fa

We use parse for publicapis.com and have no complaints.

ed12 anni fa

I have a lot of experience with Parse. What are you considering building? There are definitely some gaps in the product, particularly a sane job scheduler. I also found it tricky to deal with the relatively short timeouts, which ate a lot of our cycles to track down and work around.

Unfortunately my next few projects won't be built on Parse, which is too bad because I know and really like the team, and think there should be something a little more abstracted than Heroku for building a backend service.