[WaxProlix]

Heroku did so much right. I recently was toying with some bot frameworks (think Discord or IRC, nothing spammy or review-gaming) and getting everything set up on a free tier dyno with free managed sql backing it up, and a github test/build integration, all took an hour or so. Really exceeded my expectations.

Not sure how it scales for production loads but my experience was so positive I'll probably go back for future projects.

[greiskul]

Yeah, heroku is absolutely the best in just getting something running. Truth is most projects don't ever have to scale, either because they are hobby projects, or cause they just fail. Heroku is the simplest platform that I know to just quickly test something. If you do find a good market fit and then need to scale, then sure, use some time to get out of it. But for proof of concepts, rapid iteration, etc. Heroku is awesome.

[ericpauley]

I’ll argue that Fly.io is beginning to meet that need in a lot of ways, especially with managed Postgres now.