[metadat]

Heroku used to be freaking awesome, back in 2012. Ever since Craig Kersteins left circa 2015-ish, the UX, QoS, and platform really seem to have taken a dive into the complexity and nonsensical deep end.

It's what happens when the product visionaries get bored and leave. Such a shame.

[craigkerstiens]

Don't want to comment too much on this thread as I don't know the exact details of the incident and pulling for the team that is still around as I know this can't be an easy time for them. It does seem like the issue is not good and may continue to be trickle of updates like this for a while. Hugops to the team.

A wow, and thanks for the praise but the credit goes to way more than me. The team around in the early days was unbelievable, I learned a ton on building products and developer experience from James/Adam (founders) in particular, though Heroku wouldn't have gotten there without Orion (the other founder) as well. Byron, PvH, Mark, Noah, Morten, Oren were absolutely huge in so many ways to the leadership and direction of Heroku. And I'm sure I'm going to get messages from 50 others there in the early days that I didn't name drop them, the collective team was an awesome team and pushed each other really well.

At around 2015 it did feel like there was attrition and the technical leadership and vision started to fade. It wasn't me, it was a lot of us moved on to the next thing. At the time it wasn't Salesforce taking control or one person, we'd all put a lot into it and various folks moved on. Adam/Orion/James gave an incredibly amount and were understandably ready to recharge. Still very proud of what we created at that time, what it did for developer experience, and personally (along with that original Heroku Postgres team) trying to do what I describe as unfinished business for creating the amazing developer experience of Postgres.

[metadat]

Wasn't trying to imply it was all you, only that some of the qualitative declines I've observed began around the time you departed.

I know it's not an easy business to operate, and I'm also hoping the ship continues to stay afloat. Heroku was hugely inspiring to me and many others in the early days of Cloud PaaS.

Cheers.

[devin]

You're being downvoted because having a "product visionary" does not in any way protect your company from being owned. It happens. If your point is that previous leadership would have communicated the situation more clearly, then perhaps you have a point, but even then it's purely speculation and not particularly useful to the current discussion.

[metadat]

It's okay, thanks for the feedback.

Downvotes don't bother me, they are a welcome signal.

[genewitch]

in this context "pwned" is probably a better fit; natch?