FIREBASE LAUNCHES!!

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James Tamplin

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Apr 12, 2012, 11:57:56 AM4/12/12
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TL;DR: Check out our new website! And vote us up on Hacker News please. You can find us in the 'new' section, title is 'Show HN: Firebase, a scalable....'

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We're incredibly excited to introduce Firebase to the world today!! You have all been invaluable over the past 9 months. The product wouldn't be where it is if it weren't for you. Thank you!

The process of building cloud software is difficult and time consuming. Firebase changes that. Going forward developers building with Firebase will be able to focus on user experience, get things done in hours that used to take weeks, and build high quality real-time software.

Please do vote us up on Hacker News and help us tell the world! You can find us in the 'new' section, the title is 'Show HN: Firebase, a scalable....' We're @Firebase on Twitter too!

Thank you!

- Firebase
James, Andrew, Vikrum, Michael and Chris.

Amir Nathoo

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:00:28 PM4/12/12
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Awesome! Have upvoted
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Chris Streeter

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:02:55 PM4/12/12
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Direct HN Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832877

James Tamplin

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:12:38 PM4/12/12
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PLEASE DO NOT go to the direct link! it will trigger voting ring detection!
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Brandon Leonardo

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:14:23 PM4/12/12
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Upvoted. (from /newest page :)

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justin kruger

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:15:13 PM4/12/12
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up voted on newest page.
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James Tamplin

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:16:13 PM4/12/12
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Sorry to be dramatic :)

We've got burned before here.

Thanks for all your support!!

Alex Karpus

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:15:57 PM4/12/12
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Up-voted, great work guys!


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, justin kruger <justin...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Ivan Tse

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:26:40 PM4/12/12
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In other news: firebase.com chat is nearly 500 people right now! Woo!

Will it reach #quake status of 1000 simultaneous users? :P

Steve Jackson

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Apr 12, 2012, 12:27:52 PM4/12/12
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I am going to hang out in chat all day!  Voted as well.

Walter Chen

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Apr 12, 2012, 1:09:04 PM4/12/12
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upvoted!  nice job guys
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Maxwell

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Apr 12, 2012, 1:09:51 PM4/12/12
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This is great, up voted, keep up the wonderful work guys, thanks for me letting me be a part of it! 

Sent from my iPhone

Terry Worona

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Apr 12, 2012, 1:13:58 PM4/12/12
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Upvoted! Great work!

Ludo Antonov

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Apr 12, 2012, 2:44:17 PM4/12/12
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Congrats, guys! Upvote +1 

Ludo

Judy Tuan

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Apr 12, 2012, 2:55:02 PM4/12/12
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Congratulations! Upvoted from the newest page. Currently #1 on HN yay!

Go Firebase!!!

On Thu Apr 12 11:44:17 2012, Ludo Antonov wrote:
> Congrats, guys! Upvote +1
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> Ludo
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> On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Terry Worona wrote:
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>> Upvoted! Great work!
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>> On Thursday, 12 April, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Maxwell wrote:
>>> This is great, up voted, keep up the wonderful work guys, thanks for
>>> me letting me be a part of it!
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Steve Jackson <sjax...@gmail.com

>>> <mailto:sjax...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> I am going to hang out in chat all day! Voted as well.
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>>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ivan Tse <iva...@gmail.com

>>>> <mailto:iva...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> In other news: firebase.com <http://firebase.com/> chat is nearly

Joe Kromer

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Apr 12, 2012, 2:57:32 PM4/12/12
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upvoted as well! Congrats on the launch.

Felix Chan

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Apr 12, 2012, 2:59:19 PM4/12/12
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 Congrats!  Late to the party but up voted :)

Rubin Singh

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Apr 12, 2012, 3:06:39 PM4/12/12
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Congratulations firebase team! Excellent job and well executed.

- Rubin

tom saffell

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Apr 12, 2012, 4:06:33 PM4/12/12
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Congrats guys! 

tom

James Tamplin

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Apr 14, 2012, 3:04:59 AM4/14/12
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Launch stats, from the first 24 hours:

- 35,000 unique visitors to our webpage (126,000 page views)
- 3,354 people signed up for our beta (9.6% conversion)
- 16,000 of those people took our tutorial
- Firebase spent 9 hours at the #1 spot of Hacker News

We were also covered in Wired and Forbes. TechCrunch & ArsTechnica are writing pieces soon.

We had a great launch! Thanks for your upvotes and shares! We couldn't be happier.

James

PS. Pics from our party are attached! +200 people and a great event!


FirebaseLaunch2012.png

Steve Jackson

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Apr 14, 2012, 8:39:55 AM4/14/12
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You guys earned it! Congrats!

Felix Chan

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Apr 14, 2012, 7:04:33 PM4/14/12
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Those numbers are amazing! 

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