Developers will now be skeptical about using any BaaS. It can be acquired and shut down. They have every reason to be. We built a BaaS too. It is however built around this core philosophy of developers having complete control over their app backends. Here is the post we wrote about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10994104" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10994104</a>