[hota_mazi]

> which Parse only was after it had already failed

You just listed some pretty impressive metrics, Parse was acquired for $85M and yet, you still think that Parse failed?

I'm curious what you would call a success.

[nodamage]

A product that is acquired and subsequently shut down because the acquirer has no interest in it is indeed a failed product as far as I'm concerned, even if said acquisition was a financial success for the investors and employees.

[hota_mazi]

It was acquired because it was successful.

The failure is 100% on Facebook's side. They could have decided to keep the business up, they decided no to.

Thankfully, Google is doubling down on a similar business, so we have alternatives.

[DivineTraube]

Of course, it's a little unfair to declare it failed. The exit definitely was impressive. However, the product still died. It's hard to tell without the real business metrics whether this was due to lack of sustainable revenue and growth or just missing alignment with FB's overall strategy.

From a standpoint of traction it was no failure. A lot of developers liked it for a good reason. However, the pricing model and the lack of performance guarantees lead Parse to being used for prototype stuff in the free-tier mainly. I think, if they had a little more trust in the capabilities of developers to know what they are doing, the service might still be alive.