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We're working hard to make this possible! Hopefully you'll be impressed with what we're cooking up when it's ready.

Actually, no, you won't. Before SaaS apps, all applications were client side. Microsoft Office, for instance, is a fully client-side application.

The basic idea for hooking up a server, is that the server will act like any other client, except it will authenticate with an API key and have full read / write access. This server can perform data v…

(Founder of Firebase here) - The answer here is an emphatic, unequivocal yes. What BaaS providers like us do is create generic apis to allow developers to do the common operations that already can do …

We make no claim that the service will be free. It won't be. We'll charge based on usage, in the same way other PaaS type providers do.

Firebase is a lot more than a database with a REST API. It pushes changes to you live, as they happen, in a way that is fast enough that you can use it for real-time gaming, collaborative whiteboards,…

It uses a variety of techniques, depending on what is available on the client. When possible we use web sockets in the browser, but have other methods we can use when they're not available.

Thanks for sharing this! Too busy in chat to keep up with all the HN comments : )

Everyone has been building their own real-time solutions for the past few years and re-inventing the wheel over and over again. We saw ourselves doing it too, so we thought maybe we should do somethin…

Thank you! Glad you like it!

Good catch : ) We mention this briefly in our FAQ. We actually do have security in place (notice you can't enumerate other people's data for instance in our own tutorial), but the API is far from comp…

The actual Firebase website is at http://www.firebase.com (there didn't seem to be a link in the article).

hah. very nice! Figures HN'ers would find this immediately.

Yeah. We broke it up into a bunch of smaller individual games that people get assigned to.

Nice job with the single player versioN!

Check out the data behind the game: http://mmoa0.firebase.com/asteroids0

Wow... best. thing. ever!! Thank you : )

No, it just randomly assigns them right now...

This should definitely be made permanent.

4 AM on a Sunday is my prime working hours : ) Glad we could help keep morale up!

Couldn't agree more. I see many people applying to incubators who plan to return to their day jobs if they don't get in -- if that's their mindset I don't think they are ready to take the plunge. To b…

I agree.

Here we just posted our 2011 story and Anand shares our 2010 one. I guess it is a little more out-of-the-ordinary : )

Short answer - no. Some will participate in seed rounds if they intend to follow up in a series A. This is rare though, and $100k even at the seed stage is tiny for a VC.