[coderaptor]

Firebase's solution isn't difficult to configure, it's just more difficult when you contrast it with the simplicity and grace provided by the rest of their product.

My startup is addressing the usability mainly by acting as a proxy to a client's sensitive data storage, and providing a sane set of defaults for very specific applications.

This space is awesome, and so is Firebase - Client-side apps are incredibly attractive for MVP development - it's almost as slick a feeling as moving from PHP to Rails 10 years ago :)