I haven&#x27;t worked with Parse, but the announcement reminds me of something I decided to do as much as I can.<p>We sometimes choose to build features on top of third-party vendors&#x27; services, and the reality&#x27;s that unless that third-party derives decent revenue or primarily provides that service; one shouldn&#x27;t expect that the service will always be available. Twitter was a good example, Google SEO is another, where people who were relying mostly on search traffic got wiped when algorithms were changed.<p>It takes longer at times, and seems like reinventing the wheel, but for features that I deem to be very useful to my users, I choose to roll out the relevant underlying detail myself. In most cases there are often already third-party libraries that can help with bootstrapping the features. I&#x27;m glad that the parse-server is available so people can run their own local instance though.