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by beninsydney 1504 days ago
Digital Ocean's "App Platform" is pretty nice, although not as slick as Heroku -

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

Railway.app is pretty nice, very slick interface, this has the most "heroku-feel" -

https://railway.app

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I've used the DO App platform, generally it's pretty solid but getting up and running was miserable. The documentation is really thin and there's a bunch I just had to discover along the way, in particular while getting up and running with a DB as it's not clear how the certs are delivered into the environment variables etc.

It's been solid since I got up and running but took me about a day to get a simple CRUD app moved over to it.

If they can improve the documentation it'll be much better. Right now I'm not considering it for future projects though just because platforms like Fly.io and Render seem to have better docs and additional functionality that DO Apps doesn't have yet.