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Fukime - The Mobile Cloud Platform

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We now have a serious challenger in the race to one-up MunchOnMe for most face-palmingly bad start-up name.

Not to mention the typography choice on the home page even obscures the i.

I'm pretty sure they did that on purpose.

The logo changed since fossuser posted this comment. The older version of the logo had the "I" and the "M" joined near the top so it looked like "Fukme" instead of "Fukime".

My next startup will be phasepalm.com

Would love to be in the room when this gets pitched to investors.

The name is hilarious. Probably the only reason I checked out the website. Starting to think that it was done intentionally.

It has the same vowel and consonant positions as heroku, too. I wonder how long it will take them to get to the top of a google search for "fukime". Right now it's a deviantART profile. :)

The names are Japanese (I don't know if they're actual Japanese words, but they're certainly composed of Japanese characters).

Japanese words/sounds follow a consonant->vowel pattern: FU KI ME (fhoo-key-meh) and HE RO KU (heh-roh-koo)

Same here. I was thinking it was unintentional until I checked the website and saw the girl cartoon.

I love the name, at least it's memorable...

Parse is definitely more versatile and targeted to power-users that don't have time to implement server side ORM, user management, pushes & such. Very high-tech.

Fukime might be more like candy machine for prototyping and developers who want to make things happen quickly and just focus on client development.

Looking at the example code :-

  Fukime f = new Fukime("your_app_id","your_app_secret");

  // Count stuff across all your apps.
  f.teller.global.increase("farms");
  f.teller.global.count("farms"); // get global farm counter

How secure is this? Wouldn't the "secret" be stored as plain text in the binary?

EDIT: Nevermind, I misunderstood the nature of Fukime. Fukimailife.

Even then you could just put a breakpoint in the Fukime constructor and read the raw string?

Heck, even if the authentication step was 100% secure, what's stopping a malicious user from calling increase("farms") on a previously authenticated Fukime object? The Fukime instance is shown to have direct access to "global" variables, so the user wouldn't be limited to screwing with their own data.

This kind of logic belongs server-side (and this obviously isn't a server-side API, because the examples provided are for Android and iOS.)

To what end? I guess they could troll your "mobile app installation counter" if they really want to, but so what?

If someone wants to misrepresent how many times they've installed your app, there's nothing you can do about it. (They could just uninstall then reinstall over and over.)

Though... obviously they should only be able to mess with their own statistics, not the global statistics.

True that there's nothing terrible they can do when it's just statistics. The obvious solution would be to remove the global variables altogether, so that each user only has their own (from which the global versions are calculated).

That way, if the user was to do stupid things to their own variables, they could just be removed when calculating the global ones.

oauth would have request replay prevention or there could be some other ways of stopping the count fraud, but app_secret is probably always available in some kind of readable form. This is just an aspect of mobile security we have to live with. Facebook 3 party sign-on helps a little here because one could check requests server-side against valid temporary FB keys. But Fukime cow counter could easily do without those :)

I like these new hosted services for mobile apps, and believe this niche has huge potential for growth and monetization.

First these services need to convince users to be able to trust them -- to be in for the long run, and to do their job well. For me this assurance is missing on fukime.com -- who are they, why can I trust them and the quality of their product? Which is where I feel parse.com is one big step ahead -- being in the YC batch and having raised more than $1M makes me believe they are all in for it, and that they actually what they are doing!

Sidenote: I find it annoying to be asked to social share in order to get three others to sign up, as a prerequesite for getting into the beta (after entering my email).

Great name, uhm...

It means "fuck me" (repeatedly) in Slovenian :) But I guess if Ford* can't be bothered to check it's car names that a small startup will be even less likely to do it.

* Ford Kuga in Slovenian means Ford bubonic plague (http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga) ...

And the Toyota MR2 sounds like "shit" in French. They renamed it to the MR there :-)

Ha, funny you should mention that ... I used to own a MR2 :)

I thought it was just me. At least they didn't use FukiU.

I thought they did this web2.0-ish thing of dropping a letter, specifically a 't' right after 'k'.

Their logo makes it even worse!

very austin powers ish

Fukime? Nooo, fukiyu!

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

Is it pronounced "fuk eye me" or "fuk eee me"???

Following Japanese pronunciation rules, it would be fu-key-may (though like Heroku, it isn't a real Japanese word).

Heroku is a Glaswegian-Bovine greeting. Strickly speaking it should be Arighku.

Who the heck is Glaswegian-Bovine?

It's when the fine people of Glasgow (in Scotland) talk to cows.

I see. Thanks for educating me.

"mei" is "may". "me" is "meh". :)

If it's a transliteration of ふきめ then it's 'foo-key-meh'.

Maybe the 'i' is silent?

foo-kai-me.

I definitely like this pronounciation.

If it's supposed to be Japanese, it would be pronounced key, not kai. I'm not sure if it even means anything, though. GIS makes it appear that フキメ may have something to do with fishing lures, but it's not in my dictionary.

This is the third mobile cloud platform I've heard about in the last several hours (Parse, Kinvey, Fukime) and it is something that I could definitely use. I am wondering, anyone know which one is the best to use? It may be early since they are all still in beta.

Very interesting. The name doesn't bother me at all. At least, it's not as bad as this guy who named his business Comtaste:

http://www.comtaste.com

I'm sure some folks are getting lots of yucks from the name. Can you imagine being in a corporate IT job and trying to justify to management that the next project should be built on their platform?

Fairly certain the corporate version of this product would/will have a different name.

It's actually aimed at script kiddies who want to make cool things ... definitely not the product/branding/anything for people with an IT department.

Fukime in the Parse -- it's so Kinvey!

The page for Screamer http://fukime.com/#screamer says -

With _Sister_ you can:

It was to be s/Sister/Screamer I suppose

Oooh, thanks for noticing that. Getting fixed ASAP!

I wonder, who's playing with the post title :D he must like fukime, and I bet it's not just because of the cool name :)

The name will hold them back.

This is so awesome.

This is so funny. I like it. +1 for humor. Parse.com just sounds so ordinary.

I am literally holding my stomach in laughter. Great name and nice to see founders with a sense of humor.

lol I was afraid I had just clicked on a hentai link at first.

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