Show HN: Brightwork (a BaaS) launching 8/1, looking for early adopters

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2 points·josh_carterPDX··6 comments

Wish you and the team at Brightwork well Josh. Good luck on the launch.

Don't want to be negative but I will say the landing page wasn't as polished as expected. So important in terms of confidence especially as I'd be paying you to own lots of my apps' back end. Case in point is the use of images with text in them rather than an image with text underneath.

I'll become an early adopter if the "document store" that's mentioned is not Mongo.

Edit: Please tell me whether or not it's Mongo.

It is Mongo.

Is there a way you can talk to someone who worked on infrastructure at Parse/Facebook? I read an HN comment years ago that one of their engineers thought the choice of Mongo would probably kill the company. It (probably?) didn't, but as a Parse user, I can confirm that uptime and performance were really bad for an established company advertising enterprise service.

Here is some discussion from a year ago. A major complaint is that Mongo works OK as a single instance, but the tape and glue start to show when you need to scale it. I would really worry for a PaaS/BaaS using Mongo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3dvzsl/why_you...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9912842

Yeah definitely. Someone we talked to here at Techstars suggested the same thing. Appreciate the feedback.

Saw this comment elsewhere that you might find helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124208

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