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title: "Firebase Launch Party [Video]"
description: "Firebase Launch Party [Video]"
published: "2012-04-15"
last_updated: "2012-04-15"
authors:
  - "James Tamplin (Co-Founder)"
categories:
  - "Community"
canonical_url: "https://firebase.blog/posts/2012/04/firebase-launch-party-video"
---

# Firebase Launch Party [Video]

*Published April 15, 2012 by James Tamplin (Co-Founder)*

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On Thursday night we had a party to celebrate our launch! We had 250 people stop by and we were thrilled to have 9 great presentations of apps built on Firebase. We had another 10 demos on tables around the space.

Here is the first video of the night explaining "What is Firebase?" Enjoy!

[Video: YouTube video player](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJbiePud3A)