Export all your Parse data in one click

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I must say data portability lowers the barrier for people who want to build their next app with Parse or other such providers but are worried about a virtual lock-in with a provider.

I guess the next step is to develop standards in the cloud which allows portability of the application itself from one provider to the other.

If anyone from Parse is reading this - was this a user requested feature or was it on the road map for Parse originally? Doesn't it work against your business if you let people move out of your infrastructure easily?

We've always had data portability in mind. We're all developers and know that easy import and export are prerequisites for these sorts of platforms. This feature will certainly allow people to move out of our infrastructure with greater ease but, more importantly, it will allow many more people to become comfortable building on Parse and trust us with their data.

Thanks. I hope more providers think this way.

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