Firebase (YC S11) adds Zapier (YC S12) integration, so your apps can connect with other apps in realtime

by Y Combinator12/2/2013

Firebase, a real-time back-end service for managing apps, has added an integration with Zapier, a platform for connecting services such as SendMail, Twitter and Twilio. The new integration means developers can connect multiple apps without having to do any back-end server management themselves.

A developer using Firebase can now integrate apps that before would have required a fair degree of work. “You do not have to do all these small server spinups,” with the new integration, said Firebase CEO and Co-Founder James Tamplin during a phone call today. It may only be five lines of code to connect a new app with Firebase, but with that comes the need to provision a server, run it on a service and then do the maintenance and everything else that comes with doing it yourself. All that goes away with Zapier connected to Firebase.

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