Ask HN: Who uses Parse?

4 points by hobonumber1 11y ago ↗ HN

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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hobonumber1 11y ago ↗

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

anonfunction 11y ago ↗

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

ed 11y ago ↗

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.

karmanmike 11y ago ↗

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/

juddernaught 11y ago ↗

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