Sad. I'm not from computer science background. I have a few small projects on heroku. Guess I will have to somewhere else.
Removal of Heroku free product plans
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Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#102This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world. It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and to…
In our case, this would mean increasing our Heroku bill by 400% (we run a few paid apps and >40 free dynos with super low monthly activity) Does anyone have a recommendation how to re-create the Heroku experience on AWS or Azure?
With some investment in infra as code we have a similar experience on aws. GitHub actions + terraform targeting ECS on fargate (pay for usage). Push to main build the container, pushes to elastic registry, makes the task/service, configures alba, etc.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think nobody has been able to fully emulate this experience? It seems to me like there’d be a big market for an identical feature by feature Heroku “clone” with a more dedicated (from the outside looking in) team. No more features, no less, just exactly what Heroku did but without the intent to shut down. What’s preventing that from existing?
I've been very happy with CloudFlare Pages, and I hear good things about Vercel, but those aren't as expansive as Heroku (yet?)
Vercel is great. That’s where I’ll be moving everything for now
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#105This is good news for existing paying Heroku users. This is good news for Fly, Render, etc. This is bad news for Heroku in the long term. Free tiers are a gateway to users.
> This is good news for existing paying Heroku users. I don't think it is, as a paying customer the free instances are such a useful part of the offering enabling us to have a free staging environment and test branches. As a small business, the free instances offset the excessive cost of Heroku.
I wonder if this means they will explicitly remove review apps.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think nobody has been able to fully emulate this experience? It seems to me like there’d be a big market for an identical feature by feature Heroku “clone” with a more dedicated (from the outside looking in) team. No more features, no less, just exactly what Heroku did but without the intent to shut down. What’s preventing that from existing?
There are some that have emulated it, but the team that was there and created Heroku cared deeply about developer experience. When you just "clone" that you miss pieces, one PM friend that I worked with at Heroku called them papercuts. We would obsess over such things and the quality of something being shipped. Even now if you emulate that it's one thing, but Heroku has been frozen in time for at least the last 5 yea…
Sorry, I’m not proposing a team that not care clone it. I’m hoping that a team that cares very much do so. I agree that UX is the differentiator here.
What I am challenging is the idea that the last 8 years of missed advancement are a requirement. I’m sure there’s necessary under the good improvements; I question if there’s necessary user facing ones. Lots of people (me at least) are very happy with Heroku’s exact current feature set, minus the recent and future stability issues. We just want that to exist forever.
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#107Well shit. After the Heroku Dashboard issues I moved my OSS project demo instances and PR reviews process to Fly.io, then Render.com, then Railway, then back to Heroku because it was the only one that had a truly free and well integrated process. Sigh.
What would make the process more integrated on Render?
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#108Fly.io has a dedicated process for moving off of Heroku. Auth via Heroku and they'll launch your app onto Fly. They also have a free tier. The process: https://fly.io/launch/heroku The docs: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app I haven't used it [the Heroku -> Fly process] myself, but it's been around for quite some time!
I just tried it. Apparently, unlike heroku free tier, you need to add payment information on fly.io in order to use their free tier.
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#109The page requires to login. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/zVx9Ss7
It doesn't require a login when accessed using a private browsing window or a browser profile that hasn't been logged into Heroku before.
I wonder what purpose this particular dark pattern serves?
Edit: Perhaps accounts that authenticate on this page, and that are also taking advantage of free tiers, are being segmented for upsell. It is at least an indicator they are interested enough to read this news.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#110This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world. It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and to…
> Our product, engineering, and security teams are spending an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of the Heroku free product plans. In order to focus our resources on delivering mission-critical capabilities for customers, we will be phasing out our free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, and free plan for Heroku Data for Redis®, as well as deleting inactive accounts.
> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.
In case anybody was wondering in the article where it says free is going away.