Apps Built with Firebase

Firebase is how a great many African mobile products got to market quickly. Authentication including phone-number sign-in, a realtime database, push notifications, crash reporting and analytics arrive as one integrated set, and for a solo founder that removes most of the backend work before the first user exists. Phone authentication deserves specific mention: in markets where a phone number is a more reliable identifier than an email address, having that path work out of the box matters. Offline persistence is another genuine fit, keeping apps usable through the connectivity gaps that are simply normal here. The long-term considerations are the ones to go in with open eyes about: costs that scale with reads and writes, and a data model that is not trivially portable. Browse the products built on Firebase below.