I've been using parse for the last 3 weeks. One thing I've discovered is that it works very well for situations like a chat room, where the app is expected to always be online. For apps which need offline mode, like mine does, things start to deteriorate quickly. Object associations, for example, can't be saved while the app is offline. This has forced me to create my own hacky UUID method of storing and looking up object associations which I'm not particularly happy with.<p>These are joys of beta, closed source software, I suppose.