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by david927 1869 days ago
Have you thought of using one of the many open source Firebase alternatives?
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Thanks for your answer :)

I didn't, actually, we were in a rush and we started building something with socket.io which I guess is (one of) the easiest way to start. And then we had to scale the backend accordingly and it was a pain in the neck.

To be honest, I'm wondering if there's a space for a SAAS product around realtime...

I would think the opposite -- that's it's too popular a space. But I'm still surprised at how many services don't have it and need it, so maybe I'm wrong.