Firebase - Free (or cheap), easy to use, and effective
June 24, 2019
Firebase - Free (or cheap), easy to use, and effective
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Firebase
We use Firebase to provide push notification services for mobile applications and some internal business tools. For us, it is used to provide push services to internal employees, and to provide push services to end users of our mobile applications. We find it to be simple to use, effortless to maintain, and effective at its job.
- Reliability - We have not noticed any significant outages or delays as long as we have used Firebase.
- Ease of use - Setting up or changing Firebase services has been nearly effortless for us.
- Organization - It feels like Firebase should be part of Google Cloud Console, but it is its own tool. This isn't a big issue, but it would be great if we could access our Firebase services within Google Cloud Console.
- New features for our customers - Before using Firebase, we simply didn't provide push notifications. This has added an expected feature for us, which makes our apps more relevant.
- Engagement - Push notifications have allowed us to engage our app users with pertinent information.
Before using Firebase, we exclusively used self hosted database services. Using Firebase has allowed us to reduce reliance on single points of failure and systems that are difficult to scale. Additionally, Firebase is much easier to set up and use than any sort of self hosted database. This simplicity has allowed us to try features that we might not have based on the amount of work they required in the past.