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Parse Partners with Twilio and Mailgun for the Release of Cloud Modules

by HectorRamos on 11/8/12, 5:08 PM with 20 comments

  • by xoail on 11/8/12, 5:57 PM

    I gotta say Parse has a great CEO. The key to success is partnerships in the direction of innovation and expansion of offerings based on consumer needs. Creating win-win deals not only between you & your customer but also between you & your partners. I wrote an email to Parse few weeks ago on possible integration with Twilio. Never heard from them, and now see this. Good stuff.

  • by rudasn on 11/8/12, 6:07 PM

    I am really impressed with the direction Parse is taking. It seems to me they are fixing the right problems and they are doing it step by step.

    One thing I would love to see, is a way (an API) to abstract their Javascript library. I would really like to use another JS library other than their own. That would make the cloud code feature even better for me.

    I am wondering how long it will take them to stop marketing themselves as a mobile app platform. They are [becoming] much more than that.

  • by fieldforceapp on 11/8/12, 7:16 PM

    Gotta say, these guys are really killing it... and love the quick turn-around @csmajorfive on my comments last month, now just get going on the local caching :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700062

    I'd say Parse is aiming to take on SF.com / Heroku with this, it's certainly causing me to rethink a custom Rails3 stack we have in the works...

  • by bengl3rt on 11/8/12, 8:30 PM

    I just read the entire Cloud Code and Cloud Modules documentation, and there's one thing that doesn't quite make sense to me. There seems to be a piece missing.

    So you implement some HTTP API using Cloud Code, and you deploy it. Shouldn't their SDK, through magical synergy, expose the native function to communicate with that API on the device? It seems like I can implement my HTTP API using Cloud Code, but I still have to bring in something like RestKit or ASIHTTPRequest on the device to actually talk to it.

    So they have native APIs for talking to their HTTP API, but not the custom ones you implement using cloud code? Their example shows them calling it with curl, rather than "here's how to call this from inside your native app that already uses all the other Parse goodies"

  • by pagliara on 11/8/12, 5:57 PM

    Nice work! Perfect timing too as I was just trying to figure out the best way to integrate Twilio into an iOS app already using Parse.

  • by julianpye on 11/8/12, 5:28 PM

    Lovely! Such simple integration with Twilio is simply excellent in combination with the push features. Keep those partnerships coming!

  • by davidu on 11/8/12, 5:38 PM

    This makes a lot of sense. Not at all surprised to see Parse continuing to kill it.

  • by seansmith23 on 11/8/12, 6:23 PM

  • by yefim323 on 11/8/12, 7:08 PM

    They're also releasing a module for underscore which is pretty exciting!

  • by nacs on 11/8/12, 6:04 PM

    If this thing uses Javascript on the client side to send email or make phone calls, couldn't any visitor modify the Javascript to email anyone with any message (or make phone calls to anyone)?