Divide

Easy backend for your mobile app

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Easy backend for your mobile app

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Hello everyone, founder of Divide.io here. As a little back story, we've been working on Divide for over a year now. We started making it when we felt limited by the APIs and functionality of Parse but loved its ease of use. We felt that an open source version would be much preferable since we could deploy the backend on our own server architecture and thus be able to create custom APIs or whatever else we wanted to do with it. We soft launched last Monday on r/androiddev with the intent of getting a couple of people to use it and start giving us feedback on our syntax, docs, and website. That post got a lot more interest than we were expecting. We were then asked on Wednesday to do on-stage office hours at Y Combinator's Startup School on Saturday. Now we're here. It's been a crazy week. We are fully aware the website is vague and not very helpful, so we will be doing a massive update sometime this week. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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12yr ago

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Hunter

@aschuen Hi Aaron! Thanks for your comment. Congrats on the soft launch, I hope it's working well for you. Can't wait to see the updated website :)

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12yr ago

VEED

What programming languages and protocols do they support? And will it be a paid service in the future? I think the service is very interesting, but the website is rather confusing.

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12yr ago

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Hunter

@samuelbeek Exactly what I was thinking. The website is not very useful.

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12yr ago

Divide

Maker

@samuelbeek the backend library is written in Java and can be deployed to any server or cloud provider which supports Java. We currently have an Android SDK and are about to start on an iOS SDK. We currently plan on monetizing via commercial support, consultation, custom implementations, etc. on top of the open source project. We have an idea for how we might be able to provide a hosted-solution while still giving developers full control of the backend, but we haven't worked out the technical details of that quite yet.

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12yr ago

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Hunter

This looks promising even if the website doesn't explain what they use and what's possible. I hope they'll make an effort about this.

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12yr ago

Watershed

@syswarren I completely agree. I read through the whole site twice and I still don't know what it will actually do.

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12yr ago

Divide

Maker

@syswarren we will be doing a major redesign of the website this week. Kevin Hale helped us think through our website and how we could better convey our message.

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12yr ago

Try.com

Have you guys seen http://deployd.com/ ? They've done a really good job of making an open-source, real-time Parse. Also, @ashuen you might find some traction by allowing Parse users to easily convert to Divide with one click - you should check out @steviegraham's aptly named ParsePort https://github.com/stevegraham/p... - which is a simple and innovative way of doing it.

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12yr ago

The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People

This looks very intriguing. The docs are sparse it seems, but I'd be interested in learning more about this project.

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12yr ago

Dosh

That this connects to App Engine and AWS is killer. I'm currently using Parse for my iOS projects and it's insanely easy to use (I'm a designer). There are two caveats that this looks to fix: Price and file size. With Parse there's a filesize limit so I'm often having to hack up S3 bucket URLS to files vs grabbing them natively from Parse, so if this is as easy to use as Parse that'd be awesome.

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12yr ago

Book Your Sales

Yeah I'm very interested in seeing where this goes. We have a custom CMS for our apps, but just did one for a client using parse. Parse is pretty good, but I hate building something on someone else's platform that is traffic based. Passed this on to our developer. (Helps that we're already on aws too.)

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