Firebase

“I was a seed investor in Firebase back in 2012. They sold out to Google. It was a great outcome for us, but also More importantly, became one of the most used developer tools in the world. And they helped really build that inside of Google. Then they spun out …”

“Product market fit often is just like a product positioning fit. Sometimes you can just change some things and that's all that matters. And there are some people in the world that want whatever you're building, even if it's a niche product, you just kind of ne…”

“If you look back over the past 20 years, probably the only database companies that have really managed to do well Ah, Firebase and Mongo, and they did well because they targeted these day zero workloads that you kind of would choose them before you even knew w…”

“So we use Flutter for development Firebase, which costs us around 25 dollars a month then revenue cut to handle subscription, and we host the video on Vimeo. We already have Vimeo for our other business, so the videos are there, and one signal for push notific…”

“Whenever someone asks how to set up anything that you need, some sort of backend, Firebase type of transaction, the default answer from all the LLMs is actually a Superbase.”

“Firebase just sucks. Firebase sucks. Every, like, it's like, I'm in the Google universe. Like everything is tied to the universe.”

“I mean, I think one thing that's kind of interesting given these, you know, models inherent internal structure is that we noticed that a lot of hallucinations come from parts of our API that are like very close to Firebase, but not exactly Firebase.”

“But I think Firebase is by far the easiest to use. Way easier than SupaBase. Many people like SupaBase because it's open source. We've tested both. Firebase is easier.”

“Right now, like we actually recommend people to use Firebase or Superbase. They just kind of tend to be the ones that, that really work the best with Bolt. They have kind of off built in, they have real time data storage and synchronization.”

“What's cool about this is since we're using iOS, you can actually save things to the files, like you have your files thing on your phone, and so you can save things locally, so you don't have to set up Firebase, which takes forever and leads to a lot of errors…”

“It's not really a database, it's what I would call a data platform or a data layer.”

“Then they threw 300 sales and marketing people at this product with the sole objective of pushing Firebase, deep linking, and replacing branch. So every single one of our customers got an email from somebody at Google. All of our pipeline got it. Like they wen…”

“Well, Firebase did, right? So they were actually in our batch. They were a different company at the time. They were doing like basically chat for every website. They were trying to do that for everyone. And they ended up pivoting later into doing basically lik…”

“We have started to have a thesis around platforms that developers build on top of. Twilio SIF Science Firebase, and MongoDB. So we do like to invest in platforms for developers.”