What are some good alternatives?
Anyone any experience with https://sevalla.com/ ?
An Update on Heroku
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Re: An Update on Heroku
#92"transitioning to a sustaining engineering model". I don't care what anyone says, it takes real talent to come up with lines like this.
From a business perspective, this means they will not be investing in innovation on the platform anymore. Instead, they will focus their efforts on maintaining the current operations and keeping the lights on.
From a business perspective the have brought it out to the field with a shotgun.
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#93The downfall of Heroku should be studied, they had lightning in a bottle and blew it. Salesforce acquired them and just let it die, baffling.
Often seems like there's no defeat that Benioff can't steal from the jaws of Victory.
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#94What are some good alternatives? Anyone any experience with https://sevalla.com/ ?
I've been very happy with https://render.com/ , seems the closest to what heroku was
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#95Heroku (YC W08) was acquired by Salesforce all the way back in 2010 [0], a little over 15 years ago. A lot of people forget that, and assume the acquisition was somewhat recent. Pretty illuminating reading the thread from 2010, it was big news at the time. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489
Salesforce mostly left Heroku to do its own thing for a long time. Since that changed, dumpster fire.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means: go elsewhere, they're dead.
What's the best alternative?
If you like VPS, Hetzner with Dokploy. It works great, the UI has essentially all the features of Fly or Render that you'd use for deployment, like preview build URLs and environments.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the best alternative?
Build.io came out of this exact problem a few years ago (I joined in 25Q4) - trying to be what Heroku could have been if it had continued to evolve. We offer the same default simplicity/speed, but with the ability to go deeper once teams hit scale, cost, or workflow limits. Plus a pricing model that stays understandable and improves as teams scale rather than punishing them for it. Fair warning: the website is pretty…
Not to be confused with builder.io, or worse, builder.ai
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#98I wonder how much money Salesforce would need to sell what's left of Heroku to a better steward.
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#99It's a bit surprising, one would have thought that with the event of accessible coding through agents, such site deployment sites would prosper.
Exactly this. Missed opportunity.
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#100What are some good alternatives? Anyone any experience with https://sevalla.com/ ?
Dokku. The self hosted alternative.