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by pg_bot 2804 days ago
The common use cases for firebase can be easily reproduced with Phoenix. Phoenix also comes with a handy presence feature that allows you to track whether someone is currently using the product. (Think which present users in a chat room)

I understand the skepticism, but I would highly suggest taking a look and playing around. It's really, really good plus you get to fully own everything you build ;)

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Firebase has this presence feature as well.

Also, "fully owning" everything isn't a selling point for everyone. Some don't want to own the uptime, manage infrastructure devops etc. Serverless/managed services have their use cases.

Small teams, individual developers, bootstrapping an app quickly, running a web app with no servers to manage... Often times much more valuable capabilities than being able to reimplement to functionality already availabile to you for very low cost.