ZStack: Heroku for mobile

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43 points·zurla··8 comments

Interesting, but pretty sparse on information ... what exactly does zStack offer that's unique and helpful for mobile apps?

I found myself asking the same question. Not sure how heroku's system is much different. Running a web application is running a web application, right? Saying you need "push" is a lousy excuse IMO. Its a "the backend is the backend, right?" question?

Unless I'm missing something, offering sinatra or something lighter would make sense... but it still seems like PaaS to me.

See also http://www.stackmob.com

Funny enough, TechCrunch already ran an article claiming it to be 'Heroku of mobile': http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/stackmob/

Would love to see some compare-and-contrast between the two ...

At first I thought they were in deep trouble with this hitting the front page mere hours after the iCloud announcement. Then I looked at what the actually offer, and it looks like they will be able to compete. They have social, notifications, cross-platform-ness, and analytics in addition to just storage sync. Good luck, I may become a user!

And multiple platforms. I expect we'll be waiting a good long time for the Android integration with iCloud...

Looks really good in principle, although I think they're offering too much for a first version. The app backend alone is compelling enough for v1.0 IMO.

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