I feel like Koyeb is bound to make the same mistakes as Fly.io which is moving away from global CDN-like app deployments to regular 12-factor app hosting
It’s not a mistake, it’s what the customer base wants.
The problem with Koyeb is that their business is essentially a niche feature (multi-region). The main selling point of Fly and Cloudflare Workers is not that they’re multi-region, but that they are cheap and easy for developers. It’s a very bloody business to be in, if you ask me…
Agree with most of what you say. To clarify, I think is a mistake that Fly.io already discovered that the TAM of multi-region and Edge container platforms is tiny compared to a regular 12factor PaaS which already implies easy but not necessarily cheap, look how Render started cheaper than Heroku and now it basically matches Heroku pricing or it could be even more expensive in some scenarios specially when you consider that Heroku apps feature soft-limit of 2TB of bandwidth vs 100GB in Render and Fly.io
The problem with Koyeb is that their business is essentially a niche feature (multi-region). The main selling point of Fly and Cloudflare Workers is not that they’re multi-region, but that they are cheap and easy for developers. It’s a very bloody business to be in, if you ask me…