Divide

Hello everyone, founder of Divide.io here. As a little back story, we've been working on Divide for over a year now. We started making it when we felt limited by the APIs and functionality of Parse but loved its ease of use. We felt that an open source version would be much preferable since we could deploy the backend on our own server architecture and thus be able to create custom APIs or whatever else we wanted to do with it. We soft launched last Monday on r/androiddev with the intent of getting a couple of people to use it and start giving us feedback on our syntax, docs, and website. That post got a lot more interest than we were expecting. We were then asked on Wednesday to do on-stage office hours at Y Combinator's Startup School on Saturday. Now we're here. It's been a crazy week. We are fully aware the website is vague and not very helpful, so we will be doing a massive update sometime this week. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

What programming languages and protocols do they support? And will it be a paid service in the future? I think the service is very interesting, but the website is rather confusing.

This looks promising even if the website doesn't explain what they use and what's possible. I hope they'll make an effort about this.

Have you guys seen http://deployd.com/ ? They've done a really good job of making an open-source, real-time Parse. Also, @ashuen you might find some traction by allowing Parse users to easily convert to Divide with one click - you should check out @steviegraham's aptly named ParsePort https://github.com/stevegraham/p... - which is a simple and innovative way of doing it.

This looks very intriguing. The docs are sparse it seems, but I'd be interested in learning more about this project.

That this connects to App Engine and AWS is killer. I'm currently using Parse for my iOS projects and it's insanely easy to use (I'm a designer). There are two caveats that this looks to fix: Price and file size. With Parse there's a filesize limit so I'm often having to hack up S3 bucket URLS to files vs grabbing them natively from Parse, so if this is as easy to use as Parse that'd be awesome.

Yeah I'm very interested in seeing where this goes. We have a custom CMS for our apps, but just did one for a client using parse. Parse is pretty good, but I hate building something on someone else's platform that is traffic based. Passed this on to our developer. (Helps that we're already on aws too.)