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Wow, im excited what people are doing out of this (especially in combination with other new tools like Meteor).

Seems there is a huge development ongoing to reflect new development and scaling practices...

EDIT: REALLY like the RT-Chat on the site - that is showcasing as it should be (and not just another "Demo" button).

Everyone has been building their own real-time solutions for the past few years and re-inventing the wheel over and over again. We saw ourselves doing it too, so we thought maybe we should do something about it! We think Meteor is really exciting as well, and should enable faster / better development of the types of apps that Firebase powers.

Meteor dev here. We're really excited about Firebase -- the time has come for realtime databases. Every Meteor app needs one.

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