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by pythonaut_16 1602 days ago
I wouldn't call it crap. It certainly has limitations, but for many projects those are an acceptable tradeoff for lower friction. For many projects those limitations cost less than not launching the project at all.

Heroku definitely has a ton more competition these days though. Containerization has really encroached on their main value proposition. Fly.io, AWS ECS and Fargate, Managed Kubernetes, even just Docker on a VPS mostly don't require much more effort than Heroku.