nickai
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8 years ago Nice work! Getting the MVP done early goes a long way to setting you up for success on demo day. Joins in Parse does get a little hairy. Cloud Code is pretty powerful, but again gets a little tricky when you want to do more advanced features. If you feel like you can iterate a lot faster with a rails app, I'd make that switch.
This current week is now about iterating on the core functionality implemented by the app last week. This is the second sprint so spend your time this week filling in missing content, functionality, fixing bugs, improving the core flows, adding optionals, etc.
The final week can then be dedicated to polishing your app to make it shine on demo day.
Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way. I'm really looking forward to seeing your finished app on demo day (Dec 10th)!
/cc @codepathreview @codepath - Our first week progress is ready for review. We didn't get through all of our required stories, but made good progress.
Parse seems to get kind of complicated when we need to make api calls that join in data from other related entities. We may end up switching to a simple rails json api so we can spend less time learning Parse and more time on the app itself. Cloud Code (by parse) seems interesting, but writing some server side logic will be quicker/simpler in a rails app.
Thanks!
-Chad, Florent, & Francisco