I'm still a little confused by what Parse does and when I would use it. It sounds neat for little, proof-of-concept demos but would I consider it for production of something significant? Does this SDK work without the Parse server?
Parse lets you develop apps without writing any server code. For mobile apps and now also web apps, you can just write frontend code. We have a number of large apps in production using Parse - check out the testimonials at http://parse.com - so you could definitely consider it for significant use.
OK, I looked at it in more depth than I usually do and I can see that there would be a decent number of use cases. But as another posted said, on one hand it looks like a great platform to build against, on the other it seems really dumb to do so (locked in, etc).
Perhaps someone could reverse engineer the APIs and provide a Python/Rails + DB back-end.
