Introducing Heroku Button

Heroku should consider using SVG for the badge, just like shields.io and services like Travis CI do. The current button is blurry on a retina screen, and basic SVG is really well supported.

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#5

Post by jrnkntl » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

I think they're still working out the kinks [1], but nevertheless, great when it works. No more 'behind' hosted demos for open-source apps, just let them instantly deploy it and play with it on their own.

[1] Tried the sample node.js app immediately, although I am getting "Deployed to heroku", viewing it throws a "No such app" - https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsl55sia46ymrwv/Screenshot%202014-...

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#6

Post by korzun » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

jrnkntl wrote: post #5

I think they're still working out the kinks [1], but nevertheless, great when it works. No more 'behind' hosted demos for open-source apps, just let them instantly deploy it and play with it on their own. [1] Tried the sample node.js app immediately, although I am getting "Deployed to heroku", viewing it throws a "No such app" - https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsl55sia46ymrwv/Screenshot%202014-...

Now it's throwing internal server error.

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#7

Post by swanson » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

Awesome - I mentioned this 400+ days ago when the platform API was announced! Cool to see it getting rolled out, looking forward to playing around with this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793441

EDIT: Setup was pretty smooth - one click deploy for my RSS reader now: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#8

Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:32 PM UTC

This is extremely clever. One of the reasons WordPress took off was the easy, non-technical install process.

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#9

Post by timdorr » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:35 PM UTC

benologist wrote: post #3

This is brilliant. Are affiliate links on the roadmap? That could create a great revenue stream for self-hosted projects.

Does this support normal Git links? If so, you could simply link to a Gumroad or similar site and have that send a Heroku Button link with a customized git repo where they can deploy from.

Re: Introducing Heroku Button

#10

Post by timdorr » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

Does this have to work only via Github? Any chance it can support any arbitrary Git URI?