Given Google’s well‑known reputation for discontinuing products that don’t meet its internal success criteria, I’m wondering whether Firebase is considered successful by Google’s standards.
They’ve already begun deprecating individual services under the Firebase umbrella—for example, Firebase Dynamic Links (https://firebase.google.com/support/dynamic-links-faq).
Does anyone know where Firebase’s App Backend‑as‑a‑Service is headed?
You're likely concerned about the precedent of Facebook shutting down Parse back in the day, leaving many projects stranded. Facebook though had no real commercial interest in cloud services back then.
It seems like the firebase repos have had a fair amount of activity.
It's very very difficult to migrate to a different service provider. Since Firebase is ultimately closed source, it's not your app. Your sharing it with Google.
Running a custom solution with Render(Heroku, etc) takes a bit more effort, but it's mine. I can actually open source it. I have more control.
For my current project I went from Firebase, to Superbase and settled on Django. I have some fairly complex logic and supabase just wasn't cutting it.