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		nhangen on Aug 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps Looks awesome, but if I hear "A Heroku for..." about one more thing, I'm going to flip out. It's closer to Urban Airship than Heroku. Just because they are both YC companies doesn't mean they have to be compared.

burke on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

It's a useful analogy. Heroku abstracts server configuration away from Rails development to the point where it's (theoretically) completely unnecessary to know /anything/ about it. If this does the same thing in a different context, I think it's a fair comparison.

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