[jazoom]

I learned this lesson very early on in my dev experience. My app's database was Parse. Parse no longer exists as a service. Before that it was based on StackMob, from which I moved to Parse because StackMob was shutting down. Parse gave a hell of a lot more notice, but I was done with this project at that point.

Now a feature of the app just doesn't work. I won't be rewriting it for another backend.

Guess who doesn't use Firebase. This guy.

As a side note, I currently use RethinkDB. RethinkDB shut down last year. That has had no negative effect on my current project, which could run for a very long time on the last stable version of RethinkDB. Since it was open source, now it is even under development again.

[Can_Not]

I've seen a tutorial for "make your own self hosted firebase with feathersjs", have you considered just finding a self hosted alternative to parse and altering your application or writing a wrapper?

[jazoom]

It is my understanding that Parse itself is now open source, so I could self-host the genuine article. The reason I don't is that I really am done with that project. In fact, I'm done with Android apps altogether. I currently am working on a much better project (website).