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Firebase is owned by google. There are plenty of OSS solutions to create this exact realtime thing without getting too close to the elephant in the room.

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I don't think it was owned by google when hn started using it for the API.

I think using Google or not is pretty irrelevant, but I looked because I was curious.

This repo started in 2015, and Firebase was bought in 2014. I'm really surprised; I thought it was way more recent than that.

The oldest snapshot from the domain on the wayback machine is from 12 days before it was acquired, and the API might be older than that.

Switch to Supabase?

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