Since Parse is shutting down by January 27th, I need to migrate my startup application's entire database to a new platform. What a pain. I'm thinking of doing Firebase...

I love firebase. It is a real time database.

If I were you I'd look at other options if it's critical host it yourself on dedicated hardware or such.

Do you know about Hasura (https://hasura.io)? It's like Firebase/Parse (data and auth APIs) but hosted on your infrastructure. And also built on open source components like - Postgres, Docker and Kubernetes, and you always have complete access to these underlying components. I think it's pretty nifty.

PS: Disclaimer - I work for them. But the above is entirely my opinion and I'm not advertising.

@rayanon even though it should be self evident and it doesn't devalue your opinion in any way I am very thankful for you putting this disclaimer.
I hope this honesty will someday pay off for you.

@rayanon Thanks for that!!

And there's also Realm Mobile Platform (if you're only doing mobile, that is).

@rayanon Cool to know. Never heard of it. It's open source foundation is genius

@philcr what, do you think Firebase isn't good?

@Koolstr thanks. Yeah the whole idea is that if you ever think that Hasura is not good enough for you or you want to something beyond Hasura, you can always stop using it and still build on those open source components. And as Hasura offers a "Bring Your Own Cluster" service, it is always your server and your data.

Parse have long claimed they'd shut down their services, so you could've done this earlier. Just sayin :)

@pierrot111 Oh, I know. I have been procrastinating this crucial transition for a long time. Now that it's come down to the wire, it's now or never.