Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend
I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase.<p>TheReelBox uses Firebase as a sort of API caching layer. This protects against rate limiting on the Rotten Tomatoes API, decreases request time by caching queries to the Fandango-via-YQL API, and eliminates an extra request per movie for Youtube trailers.<p>At the beginning, this system made it possible to host TheReelBox on my public dropbox folder, which made for really fast development. Since launch I've moved the static html and js to a micro AWS instance, but Firebase cleanly and transparently handles all the data.<p>Definitely recommend it.