[supster]

I see, so seems like your core innovation is this new kind of db along with amazing search integration. Then why become a full platform (seems harder to gain traction)? Why not become a DB/Search company and create a software package that customers use (kinda like MongoDB) rather than having to deploy their code onto your platform (like Heroku)? Just curious, I'm sure you may have had good technical / business reasons.

[tango12]

Hi! Core Hasura dev here. We're trying to make hasura a place to deploy microservice style applications where hasura handles all the operational things for you (sort of like heroku) and then also wrap up a lot of great existing tech as ready-to-eat microservices that just need declarative configuration. Like wrapping over Postgres and elasticsearch. Next up on our list is file handling and cloud storage integration. Then caching.

So the idea is that a lot of things are figured out, in hopefully not idiotic ways. Built on open stuff. We're going to try to make our communication a lot more clear on that and then have a sensible demo to try it out and see the benefits of getting something super customisable setup without writing too much code.

[supster]

That actually sounds brilliant and I think there's definitely a need for something like this. As a mobile developer I often use Parse as a starting point b/c it allows fast prototyping for clients, but invariably I get frustrated by limitations and then roll my own backend.

I see on your site that you guys are looking to develop iOS & Android SDKs, feel free to let me know if you would like a hand with that :) (My email is in my profile).

Good luck!