[philjones88]

Yes, the pricing change is fine if I just want to throw up some private side projects, but for an MVP product, no. With an MVP product I would want to have a custom domain to make it look more professional and to share with the world. Sure $10 a month isn't a huge deal but I have two MVP products on a VPS at the moment that barely get any traffic whilst I figure out feasibility and if they will work.

Heroku doesn't charge for custom domains, but I would prefer AppHarbor went PHPFog's way of only allowing 3 free apps and charge $5 for those to have custom domains.

I've written three blog posts on the whole AppHarbor pricing change and just believe they are missing a whole subset of the market. In my final blog post on their new pricing I suggested someone could potentially fill this void by providing a subset of AppHarbor features as a kind of "baby" AppHarbor that is designed for small hobby/MVP projects that don't need features like multiple workers, load balancing rather just a better experience (git push) over shared hosting (ftp).