Heroku
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
8warn against
Nov 28, 2025first mention
Jun 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“All great products that get eroded by the neglect of big tech.”
“You can also solve the tech stack problem with Heroku.”
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“Heroku just hummed along. It ran our business.”
worked for a company with 10bn revenueon “An Update on Heroku”
“Heroku when you just want your app to work forever without having to think about it.”
Caveats and dissent
“Will never forgive how badly they've botched Heroku.”
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“it was watching the price stay high while reliability got worse”
Used Heroku until 2023on “Heroku Is Not Dead”
Often compared with
1 moved from Heroku to AWS
1 moved from Heroku to Dokku
1 moved from Heroku to CoolifyRender2 comments mention both
1 moved from Heroku to RenderGoogle App Engine2 comments mention both
1 moved from Heroku to Google App Engine
1 moved from Heroku to Supabase
1 moved from Heroku to Vercel
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Heroku Is Not Dead 4 mentions
- An Update on Heroku 4 mentions
- SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B 1 mention
- Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 mention
- I Am Building a Cloud 1 mention
Data: heroku.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“All great products that get eroded by the neglect of big tech.”
“Will never forgive how badly they've botched Heroku.”
“heroku is shit now”
“you could run any web app on a simple platform like Heroku”
“You can also solve the tech stack problem with Heroku.”
“it was watching the price stay high while reliability got worse”
“Heroku is most definitely dead.”
“Heroku is dead as a doornail, of course.”
“it very quickly fell behind the capabilities and devex of products like Supabase and Vercel.”
“Heroku just hummed along. It ran our business.”
“this is shady af.”
“They made the platform incredibly expensive to run.”
“Heroku made it incredibly easy to create cool apps.”
“But it was still not as robust and invisible, and also pricey (Heroku).”
“Heroku when you just want your app to work forever without having to think about it.”