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Fast way to conect mobile apps with server to show realtime data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard migrations data, when you want to add new values it could be so thoughtful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have good documentation for the understanding of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their support take several days to reply on issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We really enjoyed the ability to build small middleware solutions with Parse. It came with everyhting you needed: User management, database, SSL hosting, different client SDKs. We're sad to see it go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parse was never production level reliable. We could only use it for scenarios that we'ren't business critical.

I obviously also dislike Facebook's decision to shut it down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I initially used Parse as an easy way of integrating push notifications into a native iOS application I developed. Its very well designed and easy to add to an application with minimal headaches. If you plug in additional data points, Parse makes it easy to target messages to specific users or groups of users that match certain attributes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best things about Parse is that it's currently managed and operated for you. In January 2017, you'll need to host the service yourself in order to continue using it (http://parse.com/migration). That said, it's still immensely valuable even if you have to host it yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User session management is one of the few things I don't loathe about Parse. Their docs are pretty well thought out as well. I didn't take place in the full implementation, but apparently you can get up and running rather quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most everything. Insanely long response times for most queries. We're talking at LEAST 1000ms for a single record query, even if searching by the objectId. The product is also being deprecated, so it was a forcing function of our migration off the platform. A lot of my dislike towards it might be misdirected from being a fan of SQL over a mongodb. It's quite costly for the amount of downtime we also experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new "parse server" released GPL is a full fresh start for this project.

Project like sashido (that I'm using right now) can help you testing Parse and if you like it you can host your personal parse-server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The big step backward after the open source release.

For months users doesn't had any information about the future of this project.

I think the next year will be the real start of parse open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature of Parse it the ability to do things quickly with little code in the app itself. There are a couple lines to set it up the the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method, and then it is very simple to use in the rest of the app. My app only uses reads, not writes, from the Parse cloud, and I just want to pull all the data from a table in the database. I can do that by creating a PFQuery in one line, then by calling findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock on that query to fetch the data as JSON asynchronously. It really is that easy. Parse has many other ways to request, write, and temporarily cache data, but it works great for me thus far as just an api to fetch data from the web and store in Core Data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest problem with data is the requirement to host your own database and parse server. This hasn't always been the case but since Parse is open source now, this will likely be the way going forward. However, the guides to do this are quite clear. The way I do it is host the Parse Server on Heroku and the data on MLabs. Both are free for the amount of traffic I have. I also use the Parse Dashboard locally to have an easy interface to update and add new data to the MLab MongoDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's the best back-end tools for mobile developers that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parse will shut down and all users will need to migrate their applications to other platforms. They did open the application source code in order to allow users to perform the migration and release Parse Server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parse's complete stack offering was the main draw. Its completeness was illustrated straight away when the documentation and 'Getting Started' docs were first read. This made me feel it was sufficiently solid to base our product off of.

It provided us with a foundation to build our unique logic upon. That meant we could avoid reinventing the wheel in so many instances, especially when it came to remote database synchronisation — easily the most challenging part of our app's requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first my primary dislike was how one-size-fits-all its approach to dev was. It meant our app had to be designed around Parse's development philosophy, rather than it fitting our's.

But a year on, obviously my biggest dislike of it was the way it was discontinued. Suddenly we found ourselves having to prematurely rewrite large portions of the app in addition to a whole new backend. This definitely makes me think twice about trusting anther startup with the core operations of any future apps I write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parse contains 3 things that are really useful, setting up the database, push notification to the back end, and the cross platform APIs to access these 3 things. On top of everything is their friendly UI and amazing documentation. Although these looks extremely simple features, but yet on one has done it right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are certain limitations with Parse, such as storing file is only at 10MB. So we had to build additional tool to store either on AWS or Azure and store the link of the file to Parse. But I think this is something they can do easily as part of the feature which would increase usage for the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.