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Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers

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Do these guys even know their own name? From Powerful data models and queries:

> With backeam you can model

Emphasis mine.

It's not even a quickly-typed email from a company rep, it's the front page of their website.

These guys are just launching - please be kind; they will definitely appreciate your feedback though.

Sorry for the typo. It's fixed now.

"When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger."

No acritude, just joking ;)

TIL: Converting between USD and EUR is simple stuff. Just place the currency symbol at the end. No?

Apple does it, and it seems to work fine for them.

I'm buying my Apple devices from the US. I live in Europe. It's that irritating :)

USD prices don't include VAT but EUR prices do though

If you what to gouge money from people who pay in Euros, sure - $1 = 0.76 Euros - see https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+dollar+in+euros

> "Honest and flexible pricing for your needs"

I don't find it that honest to require $39.72 from your customers that pays with EUR, and $29.99 from customers that pays with USD.

Steam does the same.

Taxes are included and they apply to customers within the EU. If you convert $29.99 to EUR and add the required taxes you get 29.99€ almost exactly.

This should probably be mentioned somewhere!

As well, know that as a EU buyer, if I buy from you in $, the VAT still applies.

See http://docs.recurly.com/vat for more information

Thank you. We will explain this somewhere. About the VAT and currency, at this moment we decide the currency based on your location. So if you are a EU-based company we will charge the price in €.

Very nice and transparent guys and top notch devs. Made contributions to open source and now they are launching this. Definitely worths a try.

Many thanks for your comments :)

Looks interesting - nice landing page. What are the differences between Backbeam and Parse?

Some differences:

- Rich control panel, rich data model and powerful query engine. You can make complex data models and then you can view/edit the data and their relationships easily in the control panel. There are many data types including geolocations and rich text.

- The query engine includes joins, conditional joins, and full text queries.

- Files. You can crop/scale images on the fly. Just ask backbeam in which size and scaling policy you need it.

- Realtime API

- Email delivery integrated with well-known platforms such as Postmark, Amazon SES, etc. You can edit and create email templates right on the control panel.

- Full web development framework, right on the browser. You can create views and controllers in an online editor and test your webapp and get feedback of any errors without leaving the browser (you don't need a terminal to push your changes, just save and refresh).

- You can create many web versions, publish one of them and continue developing the others.

- Open Source SDKs.

- You have two environments: dev and pro by default.

Very interesting! I particularly like the integrated admin backend -- should save a lot of time.

What database are you using to power all of this?

Currently we are using Redis to make the service as fast as possible. Redis gives us a lot of power to improve our query engine. More features on BQL (Backbeam Query Language) are planned so you can make very complex queries very fast. This is mandatory for mobile applications. Other solutions offer very poor query engines so many times you need to do several requests in your mobile application in order to fetch all the data you need. We work hard to avoid that.

For big projects (> 50Gb data) we are going to combine Redis with a disk-based database. We are testing this integration right now.

You would have got more views if you did ShowHN in the title....I think

Kudos to posting on HN.

Since I'm not the author, I did not put Show HN.

As well, I used Show HN a couple of weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066) for my own product (https://www.wisecashhq.com/) and it mostly flopped (despite getting on the HN homepage many weeks before thanks to one of my users posting the sample webpage I had at that time).

So well - not sure!

Looks great so far !

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