&gt; I know this sounds hard, but it really isn’t that difficult to use Ruby on Rails or NodeJS to produce a simple API to power your mobile apps.<p>This trivializes all the hard work that goes into making a backend scalable, secure and reliable in an acceptable timeframe. You could also argue that using your own hardware instead of someone else&#x27;s (cloud) &quot;isn&#x27;t really that difficult&quot;. It&#x27;s just a few servers, right?<p>If you feel &quot;betrayed&quot; because of Parse&#x27;s shutdown, then you didn&#x27;t analyze your risks properly. Suppliers and providers come and go in every industry, and IT is no exception. Using someone else&#x27;s things is just a tradeoff and a business decision.