Thanks for your comment; regarding your thought, from my perspective there was nothing that Parse provided that was easier than just building the app on Heroku ourselves. And we wouldn&#x27;t have been stuck in the horrible node&#x2F;javascript ecosystem then!<p>So, I would say, if Parse had been this Parse Server product from the start, that would have been a lot better! But there wasn&#x27;t really any need for such a thing at my company. We had to use Parse for incestuous &quot;YC alum&quot; reasons---we did not have a technical need for it.