[dbancajas]

can someone tldr us on what happened to parse?

[gamache]

Founded 2011, sold to Facebook for $85M in 2013, folded by Facebook in 2016 (though the software was released as open source).

[j_s]

Technically I believe the software was re-implemented as open source; the initial release didn't measure up compared to what Parse offered but the project has grown since then.

[newsat13]

I am curious to know why facebook bought it in the first place

[jaypaulynice]

Pbly talent grab and also it gave them a view of up and coming apps they could target for acquisition: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-facebook-acquired-parse-f...

[jeron]

Facebook decided it wasn't worth it to continue maintaining Parse so they shut it down and open sourced all the code. Simple as that.

[st3v3r]

Facebook bought it. Parse was highly coupled to AWS at the time. They spent some 3 years trying to get it to run on Facebook's cloud, and apparently failed to do so. Facebook decided to cut their losses, and shut it down.

[csmajorfive]

We did have many technical challenges (as would be expected, really) but that wasn't why it ultimately went away.

[desireco42]

Parse is not that challenging that you can't reimplement it in any platform you choose, especially in 3 yrs.

[alvarosevilla95]

Facebook bought it.

[helloanand]

facebook shut it down