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Advice. When to choose convex over alternatives? benefits caveats etc.

I have a question I'd like to be answered unbiasedly. I would like to know what would be a better option for creating a realtime application that does the following, friend system with realtime online status, group chat/dms, etc? The majority of the question stems from development experience and security. I personally would like to use convex, but my partner is HEAVILY leaning towards appwrite (due to only size/community). If there's an argument to why or why not we should use convex, what would it be? I feel that both of the options are good however I still have questions regarding row level permissions. Sorry for the potentially controversial question, I do not wish to create any drama or argument below. Just seeking thoughts on this. Looking forward to reading the response!

ps: we will also implement some AI related features in a separate yet related project
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Hi @everyone with everything going on today I forgot to post on discord about our EU launch! We have a region in Dublin now! You can start using it immediately, even for folks on the free plan. https://news.convex.dev/we-finally-got-our-eu-visa/ Stay tuned for more regions but also stay tuned for more infra improvements where we improve latency for teams no matter where their servers are located. Just at the tip of the iceberg re all the optimizations we have lined up.

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Wayne

Hi @everyone happy Monday. Components Authoring [Challenge](https://www.convex.dev/components/challenge) updates! Meet the second batch of community-approved components **Firecrawl Scrape **- Scrape any URL and get clean markdown, HTML, screenshots, or structured JSON - with durable caching and reactive queries. https://www.convex.dev/components/firecrawl-scrape Built by: Gitmaxd **Durable Agents **- A Convex component for building durable AI agents with an async tool loop. https://www.convex.dev/components/durable-agents Built by: Siegfried **Convex Debouncer** - A server-side debouncing component for debouncing expensive operations like LLM calls, metrics computation, or any heavy processing that should only run after a period of inactivity. https://www.convex.dev/components/debouncer Built by: Ilya **DatabaseChat **- A Convex component for adding natural language database queries to your app. https://www.convex.dev/components/database-chat Built by: Nick **Transloadit** - A Convex component for creating Transloadit Assemblies, handling resumable uploads with status, and persisting status/results in Convex. https://www.convex.dev/components/transloadit Built by: Kvz **Loops** - A Convex component for integrating with Loops.so email marketing platform. https://www.convex.dev/components/loops Built by: Bobby The [challenge](https://www.convex.dev/components/challenge) is now ongoing, so keep building, and we'll keep rewarding. Thanks, everyone!

Wayne · 3w ago

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