Ran into the exact same issue when using Parse. I was working on an app that
operated primarily through push notifications. The push notification downtime
was horrible -- I remember having to get on calls with clients apologizing
profusely for the downtime. We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money
for extra reliability, which didn&#x27;t seem to help much.<p>I never heard people talking about the difficulty of moving off of Parse,
especially in mobile clients that were developed with the Parse SDK. I spent a
ridiculous amount of time getting Parse synced with our custom backend so old
clients wouldn&#x27;t break.<p>Final thing: debuggin. For nearly any issue, a half-assed solution---often not
usable in production---by one of their staff was buried deep into their forums.
Super painful.