I lament what could have been with heroku. I did some back of the envelope calculations for what it would have cost for my own startup to run on it and it came out to significantly more than what it costs us on aws INCLUDING our dedicated devops guy. They really killed its utility for anything bigger than a hobby project.
sleepy_keita•1h ago
Yeah. It used to be the go-to for starting simple projects. We have quite a bit of other options in this space now, though - GH Pages, Cloudflare workers, Vercel, Netlify, etc etc...
czhu12•27m ago
This is exactly why we built https://canine.sh, to try to rebuild Heroku in the open source
We begged heroku for years to lower their prices but they just kept increasing it.
I even showed a rep a side by side comparison of heroku vs raw AWS costs and it was 8x. Absolutely couldn’t justify
bastawhiz•1h ago
I suppose congrats to Salesforce for inventing the most expensive way to run .Net 10?
mythz•1h ago
How does running on expensive clouds become newsworthy?
christophilus•1h ago
I upvoted it before reading, thinking it was Haiku (OS) not Heroku (overpriced SaaS thing). Maybe others did the same?
oofbey•58m ago
TIL: Heroku is still online. A shadow of its former self but still there.
cultofmetatron•2h ago
sleepy_keita•1h ago
czhu12•27m ago
We begged heroku for years to lower their prices but they just kept increasing it.
I even showed a rep a side by side comparison of heroku vs raw AWS costs and it was 8x. Absolutely couldn’t justify