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Heroku to discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts

by stunt on 8/27/22, 10:06 PM with 28 comments

• by SquareWheel on 8/27/22, 10:46 PM

  This was discussed largely in this thread.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594533

• by tmpz22 on 8/27/22, 11:05 PM

  I learned web development through "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" by Michael Hartl. The book is a project-based tutorial where you create a Twitter clone complete with a basic authentication system.

  The book had you host your app on the free version of Heroku. I imagine this book has taught a lot of people, and influenced a lot of people to use Heroku.

  Not anymore I guess.

• by BSOhealth on 8/28/22, 12:19 AM

  I essentially earned a college degree’s worth of languages/frameworks (Ruby, Node ecosystems) on free Heroku instances, and I owe my career to it. Other comments speak to this point as well. There’s probably a generation of us who completed some blog/O’Reilly “curriculum” involving Heroku > Digital Ocean > AWS > etc.

  I never paid Heroku a dime and, after everything has shaken out, I don’t know why I would start now.

• by tehwebguy on 8/28/22, 12:41 AM

  There are plenty of cool alternatives but one I’ve used and don’t see mentioned here is Dokku, which was trivial for me to set up on, in my case, a cheap droplet on DigitalOcean.

  https://dokku.com/

• by xena on 8/28/22, 12:05 AM

  This made me have feelings, I wrote them up on my blog: https://xeiaso.net/blog/rip-heroku

  I wish that things were better such that we could have nice things.

• by yumswiss on 8/27/22, 11:45 PM

  Will there be a new pricing tier or lowest being $7?