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by moe 5700 days ago
100k sounds crazy high.

How many of these apps have seen a page-hit during the last month?
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erikpukinskis 5700 days ago
Free apps get killed every 24 hours and wont start up again until they get a hit (http://www.mail-archive.com/heroku@googlegroups.com/msg04562...). Possibly there are some paid apps that aren't getting used, but why would you pay every month for an app no one uses?

So, the answer is: probably close to zero.

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barmstrong 5700 days ago
Probably > 95% of them are free apps with hardly any traffic.

But this is part of the beauty of Heroku. If you hack something together instead just storing it with "git push origin" you can do "git push heroku" and actually demo it to the world for free.

I like to think of Heroku's 100,000 apps as public demos of a lot of GitHub repositories.

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icco 5700 days ago
Interesting, I totally thought they would have hit this a while ago. For some reason I assumed they might have hit a magnitude higher. But I guess I totally misunderstood their popularity. Whoo echo chamber.
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moe 5700 days ago
Well, just to ensure we're on the same page; this claims 100k concurrent, running apps.

If a significant portion of these apps were active then that would translate to a 6 figure hosting bill from amazon (per month!).

So either heroku is much larger than I thought, or most of these apps are not actually doing much.

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