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The website doesn't work correctly on my Android (JB4.2.2) browser. I can see the page background with a lot of scrollable space, but no text or header.
It'd be really interesting for me to know how many companies/larger projects have been build on top of Backend-as-a-service. I can understand the use case for simply storing passwords etc., but I'm really wondering whether you can create a complex product on top of them, though I am biased as a full-stack developer
Well , the good news is there are open-source baas libraries one can install on his own server, and they are fully testable. I would use a baas for a quick prototype , where the client is built first though , so there are some use cases. But again , there are a lot of script you can get that are production ready , with a RESTfull interface , ACL and user management , mongodb backed so user can upload to gridfs etc ...
OP here, If you're seeing an "unexpected error" when creating a project, we apologize. We're having an issue with our dropbox worker process. We're working on it.
Ok, thanks to Dropbox support it looks like we're back up!
Backlift seems to be a proprietary implementation - your app runs on their servers.

Am I correct in this assumption? Can you not run your own implementation, e.g. rails?

And dropbox integration before git integration...?

You're correct, Backlift isn't set up to let users run their own backend.
Spelling mistake on the front page of backlift.com: "...Bakbone.js...., to name a few".