How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: Firebase

Posted by mikecarlton on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:47PM
from the hackernoon.com dept.

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-a-product-loved-by-millions-and-get-acquired-by-google-the-firebase-story-82dab4e3e80c#.wtrv8jz5p

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Re:How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired... by kaisen99 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:24AM (#13984119)

Excellent article on how to build an actual dev community around a platform. I think my fav takeaway is to be honest with devs, something a lot of platforms tend to fail at, as they tend to focus on how they are the best for all use cases.

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Re:How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired... by orionblastar on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:12AM (#13983601)

Wasn't Firebase or Firebird a fork of the Borland Innerbase or whatever database? They could not sell it so they created a free and open source version of it, and then someone ported it to different platforms, etc.

It was supposed to compete with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.

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