Parse launches premium feature: end-user branding

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49 points·csmajorfive··6 comments

Cool, +1 This is very useful. You guys keep making parse even more awesome than it already was.

This is just a personal opinion from someone who is not (currently) a customer, but I didn't realize that the free service required you to accept in-app branding.

Personally, I'd much rather pay a small monthly fee for the bottom-tier (free) service than have my app branded in any way by Parse.

I could see keeping the free option open for testing, but I think a mid-range option under $200 (sans branding) would open you up to a lot more potential customers.

The free service actually doesn't have any explicit in-app branding requirements. We avoid that wherever possible. These new features allow you to replace what were previously very generic password reset emails, confirmation pages, etc.

Thanks for the feedback!

Minimum $199 per month to brand your user templates? Ouch.

If it's that important to you (and the branding is extremely minimal) there's nothing to stop you writing your own wrappers using the REST API. I actually had to do this for a project that used Parse and finished just before these new features got announced - where we didn't want password reset functionality to go via the parse.com domain.

This is pretty sweet!

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