Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications

I'm using it just for the push notifications, already have a back-end and its dead simple to use.

Good timing, just got my beta account going this morning.

I think Parse is the best thing that has came to me this year as an iOS developer. The learning curve to use it is very low, it's very easy to use the native iOS SDK if you're familiar with objective-C.

I'm using this right now. Awesome platform and great customer service.

Link to the real website: <a href="http://www.parse.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.parse.com</a>.<p>No idea why the appcelerator page is the main story link.

How is this better than using amazon web services?

Im confused: Aren't Appcellerator and Parse in competition with each other, now that the former has acquired Aptana?

Just wait until you want some server sided logic and you screwed the pooch because instead of actually sitting down and learning doing some backend code (Sinatra/Node + psql/redis) like pragmatic software engineers (the opposite being regular code monkies) you ended up learning and depending on their services.