Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
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Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
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Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#2Pay?
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#3More thorough resource from last week:
Heroku Free Alternatives
https://github.com/Engagespot/heroku-free-alternatives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33300053
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Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#4Pay?
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#5Pay?
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
Many of these projects have no revenue and only exist because a free plan existed. Paying is a non starter so asking where that next free alternative is is a logical intermediary step before shutting it down and moving on to something else.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#6Pay?
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
It feels like a bait-and-switch and the "heroin dealer" model to give something away for free just long enough that people become reliant on it, and then suddenly make it be paid.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#7Digital Ocean’s App Platform seems similar.
GCP offers Cloud Run which would probably free for most to run containers.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
It feels like a bait-and-switch and the "heroin dealer" model to give something away for free just long enough that people become reliant on it, and then suddenly make it be paid.
> It feels like a bait-and-switch and the "heroin dealer" model to give something away for free just long enough that people become reliant on it, and then suddenly make it be paid.
Heroku's free tier has been incapable of running a 24/7-accessible webserver for many years, nearly a decade[0].
At this point, if anyone is reliant on it, it's almost impressive that they've managed to get by for so long without either paying Heroku or bouncing off to another service.
[0] if you give them a verified credit card, you get a few additional free hours per month, just barely enough to run a single webserver full-time on one dyno. At best, the free tier offering is... incredibly limited.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
It feels like a bait-and-switch and the "heroin dealer" model to give something away for free just long enough that people become reliant on it, and then suddenly make it be paid.
It was given away for free for 10+ years.
What does Heroku / Salesforce owe us?
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#10Stay on Heroku? Still works.