I'm not seeing any compelling reasons or examples on your landing page about why this is a better fit for the educational market than something more general, like Parse.
Digging more into your docs show that you have specific endpoints for modules and materials, but its still not really clear why those are better than using mongo without your layer over it.
Would love to see an example of an app that can be made much more quickly with Teech vs Parse or other BAAS providers.
Right now our data management API is very similar to Parse and other BAAS indeed, I agree. What we offer that you won't find in Parse are the assignments, assessments and submissions endpoints that basically allow you to register students submissions to quizzes for example and automatically tracking the students performance.
This week we're releasing our data analysis API that is really core and will allow to perform analysis on the data that devs gather using teech.io to power their apps. So let's say for example that you want to build a custom dashboard for teachers and show the students performance level over the time or show a sunburst chart with performance of your classroom grouped by a bunch of different properties. Well, using our API you will be able to this with just one API request querying your teech.io backend data.
Looks interesting. I'm wondering what there is to be gained by constraining your API models to your modelling into materials, modules, enrolments etc?
We are developing an education website for anatomy[0], and our quiz types and data model is quite different - at least from a first glance. We do store everything ourselves already, but if we were to move to parse / firebase / cloud data store/API - I'm not sure what would make us choose teech over a more generic solution.
Very cool project you have! Well as I wrote in the other comment, we're very similar to Parse right now but we are about to release our analytics API that will allow you to perform learning analytics on top of the data that you store in the backend and deliver for example custom dashboards to teachers. This is something specific for education and you won't find anything like that in other BaaS providers products.
Yes, you're right because that is actually just an animation. What we do is basically gather the real API requests count here http://api.teech.io/rest/total_count - we don't have nothing to hide :) -, we subtract couple of calls from the total and we do the animation. A quick and dirty solution to bring some real-life to website, we'll fix it in the near future but glad you noticed it!
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Would love to see an example of an app that can be made much more quickly with Teech vs Parse or other BAAS providers.
We are developing an education website for anatomy[0], and our quiz types and data model is quite different - at least from a first glance. We do store everything ourselves already, but if we were to move to parse / firebase / cloud data store/API - I'm not sure what would make us choose teech over a more generic solution.
Am I missing something?
[0] https://www.kenhub.com