Ask HN: Who uses Parse?

Posted by hobonumber1 on Saturday October 18, 2014 @03:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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!

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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Parse? by ed on Saturday October 18, 2014 @07:30PM (#8476719)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Parse? by karmanmike on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:19PM (#8480583)

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/

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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Parse? by juddernaught on Monday October 20, 2014 @06:46PM (#8484965)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Parse? by hobonumber1 on Saturday October 18, 2014 @03:51PM (#8476114)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Who uses Parse? by anonfunction on Saturday October 18, 2014 @07:15PM (#8476667)

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

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