CloudyRec, a mobile backend-as-a-service, will be shutting down

CloudyRec, a Singapore-based startup building a backend platform for mobile apps and games, has decided to call it a day. The service will be shutting down on 30 April this year. Current users should retrieve their data before it’s too late. Here’s the official announcement, first published on the CloudyRec blog by its Burmese founder:

Dear Awesome Hackers,

This is Aung from CloudyRec, our cross-platform mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS).

I’m really sorry to announce today that, with effect from 30th April 2013, we’ll be shutting down our CloudyRec platform and services due to a number of commercial and strategic reasons.

We’d like to suggest you to back up and retrieve your apps’ data using our data browser functionality. If you need any assistance with migration to other MBaaS platforms or backing up your data, you can always reach out to me through aungsithu@rivaledge.sg, any time.

Just a bit of history. We’re an interactive digital media company based in Singapore and started working on CloudyRec back in 2011 for our internal projects. Along the way we thought this platform could be useful for other devs as well. And so we released CloudyRec open-beta to public in late 2011. We were selected to launch during the firstever DEMO Asia launchpad event as well as Tech in Asia’s Startup Arena. Things were really exciting.

Our vision with CloudyRec is simple. We are developers and want to help other developers to be more productive, efficient and cost-effective when building software, be it games or mobile apps. However we failed to reach a scale to carry forward that vision with CloudyRec, though we tried really hard over the past year.

We’re really grateful to have you signed up for CloudyRec. Because you’re one of the fews who trusted and supported us.

Onwards and upwards!

Aung Sithu,

Co-founder & CEO

Rival Edge Pte Ltd