George Batschinski August 1, 2019

Hasura Alternatives – Top Competitors

Hasura proceeds to innovate and dominate the real-time GraphQL market. While it extends a frequently refined collection of products for many varieties of development requirements, it may be not always the easiest, most agile, or cheapest option. There’s a frequently increasing inventory of cloud companies that extend products and services in ways that can avail developers with easiness and affordability.

In this blog post, I’ll show some of the alternatives to Hasura; some companies that are still young but still useful to developers. Others are more stable businesses and running for a while. The tutorial will include subsequent competitors:

Back4App – GraphQL database hosting platform
Parse – Open-Source GraphQL framework
GraphCool – Open-Source framework to deploy serverless GraphQL backends
AWS App Sync – Service to run GraphQL in the cloud
Postgraphile – GraphQL APIs from a Postgres schema
Subzero – GraphQL & REST APIs for databases

How to create an app and make money?

To create an app and make money in 2026, you validate the idea before coding, build a simple MVP on a ready-made backend to keep costs low, launch fast, and monetize through ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, or a freemium model. This guide covers the full journey in 13 steps — and the table below compares the main ways apps earn revenue.

Monetization model	How it earns	Best for
In-app advertising	Ad networks pay per impression/click	Free apps with large, engaged audiences
Freemium	Free core app, paid premium features	Tools and productivity apps
Subscriptions	Recurring monthly/annual payments	Content, services, and SaaS-style apps
In-app purchases	One-off purchases inside the app	Games and consumable content
Paid app	One-time purchase price	Niche professional tools
Sponsorship / partnerships	Brands pay for placement or integration	Apps with a defined niche audience

You got it! Do you want to do something big? Have an excellent idea for the next billion-dollar app?

How to create an app and make money?

This article will detail the lessons learned during my 13-year entrepreneur journey running a software development company and creating hundreds of mobile apps.

I will reveal the hidden secrets of how to bring your ideas to life. We will provide practical steps based on our own experience making mobile apps and share some tips that worked well for me.

Costs to self-host a Parse App on AWS

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Price to self-host a Parse app on AWS

Would you like to know how much it costs to run your Parse app directly at AWS? So, you are in the right place and we will provide the prices for hosting a Parse app at AWS. We will calculate the costs based on two different scenarios. The first scenario will cover a small application and will not provide a redundant infrastructure. So, if any of the instances fail, the app will face downtime. The second scenario will cover a more robust structure with redundant application instances and a replica set to run the databases.