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Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by anandkulkarni on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:00PM (#5408536)
This really inspires a lot of possibilities (and seems even easier than setting up with Parse). You could make some killer mobile massively multiplayer games like this -- the next Spaceteam or MMO Pong.

Can't wait to try it out! Which apps are you guys most hoping to see built?

Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by mayop100 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:06PM (#5408594)
It's a general-purpose tool, so we expect to see all kinds of things built.

I'm especially excited about location services -- our SF Live Bus example in the blog post is one example, but in general there are tons of applications for notifying others of the locations of things in real-time (Uber, Postmates, Lyft, etc). I'm also very excited about multiplayer gaming on mobile, which is still in it's infancy. Some of the more interesting ones use phones in new ways. Gempad (in the post) uses your phone as essentially another input device. There are a bunch of other cool things you could do here as well.