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This looks to just be the "real time" DB? How is this different from using GraphQL subscriptions via Hasura/Postgraphile, or RethinkDB?

Also, it seems like it's missing everything else that Firebase provides. Authentication, authorization, storage, hosting, etc. To me, Firebase's value prop is more than just a database.

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AFAIK Firebase doesn't actually offer any real authorization do they? It was some time ago I last built a project with them, but I remember having to create a custom "roles" attribute in the Realtime DB for users.

I answered this over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443

tldr: > We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)

Sounds good. Would it make sense to put some info about your roadmap on your main marketing pages? There's pros and cons of that, but for positioning sake, I'd recommend it, and given that it's still an alpha, I think that mitigates the expectations of feature completeness.

Good idea. This post caught us off-guard but I’ll update the site as soon things settle down

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