[wqtz]

I geniunely and strongly believe PaaS and BaaS do not have a sustainable business model for the long term. Most of the platforms are losing money for each user they onboard. No matter how "loved" a platform is they are not actually making money and some point they are going to "get you". All the new platforms are constantly raising money to compensate for the costs and nobody is actually engineering solutions to reduce cost but doing feature engineering that is actually increasing their cost per user.

If Heroku works for you, that is good. Ignore my comment.

[tmpz22]

PaaS is just a middleman service providing convenience over more bare bones infrastructure. Look at the entire world of profitable middleman companies and you’ll see there’s plenty of viability in the business model, but it’s not as easy as a golden goose.

[rtpg]

> Most of the platforms are losing money for each user they onboard.

I really don't think they're losing money on onboarding, but I can totally see an argument for the fixed costs being so high that it doesn't work out.