[matus_congrady]

There's been a lot of complaints about Heroku recently, and I think there will be a lot more.

I believe that Heroku under the Salesforce's management is a different product that a lot of developers are used to.

It's now in a Cash cow stage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_cow. Salesforce is trying to extract as much revenue as possible from the company they bought. And guess what - the real margins doesn't come from SMBs and individuals - they come from larger companies with large contracts.

Heroku is no longer building a product for ordinary developer's side-project, or for SMBs or early-stage startups. They are building a product for larger accounts paying 25k+/month.

Customers that are expecting the old Heroku experience just need to look somewhere else. There are a lot of alternatives (such as render.com and many others). But the truth is, none of them is as good as Heroku. Luckily, these PaaS alternatives are getting better as we speak.

There are also different alternatives, such as https://stacktape.com (disclaimer: I'm a founder). For example, Stacktape offers PaaS-like experience directly within your own AWS account. It offers developer-friendly experience, and allows developers to deploy their apps entirely on their own, while at the same time offering the full power and flexibility of AWS.