Hi all... I'm the new-ish Heroku/DX GM for Salesforce, and in prior job was the Kubernetes GM for AWS. I always read these threads with great interest. Very much appreciate the unvarnished feedback about Heroku we get here.
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Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#112Hi all... I'm the new-ish Heroku/DX GM for Salesforce, and in prior job was the Kubernetes GM for AWS. I always read these threads with great interest. Very much appreciate the unvarnished feedback about Heroku we get here.
In the main thread on Hacker News, you still haven't addressed any of the issues raised by developers on closing down the free tier. What alternatives did you consider? What stats? What about folks who have both free and paid dynos?
Also, please read all the feedback on the communication style in the blogpost.
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#113Short answer: no. Every year I try out new things (fly, render), but stick with heroku because I'd rather focus on building products and not devops. I'm a solo dev making $700k a year on my projects. I'm happy to pay the extra cost for things to just work. If there is a catastrophic issue though, I do have backups elsewhere that I will use.
Can I know what projects you build?
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#114We are building a cheaper and better alternative over at https://app.build.io ; you can start importing your Heroku apps to our platform or create new apps on it, it automatically builds apps with continuous delivery from your GitHub repository. When you import your app from Heroku we get your buildpacks (or detect them if you didn't manually set them) and sync your environment variables with Heroku, so you can keep your addons running on Heroku but save money with our cheaper and faster "dynos" (we call them instances).