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Building realtime apps: Custom solution or hosted APIs?

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Anonymous
·Aug 16, 2017

Hosted APIs like Pusher, Firebase etc

48%

Own solution

52%

44 votes · Closed

If you were to build a realtime app (say a chat based app), which one would you choose? What are the pros and cons of each? Assume that you have budget for paid solutions.