This is a quick side project I built to try Firebase. I was surprised how easy it was to put something together. Their onboarding process is fantastic, the docs are well-written, and their sample apps provide several simple design patterns to use as starting points.
I thought that Firebase would be incredibly useful as a rapid prototyping tool, but I'm now thinking of using it as a backend for a couple of apps I'm bootstrapping and doing away with servers altogether. iOS support and other interesting features are in the pipeline, and it's already an incredibly compelling platform.
The only thing missing for me right now is webhook support.
How do you guys create these cool little sites so quickly. I can imagine how you could create the script easily, but making the little icons, layouts, etc... must take a long time.
I'm a front end developer and designer, so I can throw layouts together pretty quickly. I now use Typecast[1] to set a basic mood and find a header and body font, then for simple sites like this I skip Photoshop/Fireworks and do the ‘layout’ in the browser.
It's pretty simple. Firebase has pretty decent docs and even when they didn't (I was at their pre-release hackathon), it was still extremely simple to get up and running. Just scope their site.
I thought that Firebase would be incredibly useful as a rapid prototyping tool, but I'm now thinking of using it as a backend for a couple of apps I'm bootstrapping and doing away with servers altogether. iOS support and other interesting features are in the pipeline, and it's already an incredibly compelling platform.
The only thing missing for me right now is webhook support.