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1806 points JustSkyfall | 9 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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stroebs ◴[18 Sep 25 06:07 UTC] No.45286038[source]▶
Classic Salesforce. The exact same thing happened with our org and Heroku. Zero empathy, just pony up or we trash your company.
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1. jonplackett ◴[18 Sep 25 06:16 UTC] No.45286112[source]▶
Yeah they fucked Heroku hard. I used to love Heroku. Can’t imagine there’s many people still left using it now.
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2. mrroryflint ◴[18 Sep 25 07:12 UTC] No.45286520[source]▶
Hundreds of thousands, in fact. But I bet it’s a downward trend with no hope of a turnaround.
3. jorisboris ◴[18 Sep 25 07:41 UTC] No.45286742[source]▶
I still have old personal projects on there

Its inertia, its just not a priority to move them over

4. wereHamster ◴[18 Sep 25 08:14 UTC] No.45286944[source]▶
We just managed to shut down our last Heroku service a week ago. Good riddance.
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5. Mo3 ◴[18 Sep 25 10:50 UTC] No.45288063[source]▶
> Yeah they fucked Heroku hard

Surprisingly not as much as I'd thought when they took it over. They just never adjusted pricing to remain competitive. The experience is still some of the best you can get for RoR apps. But nobody in their right mind deploying a new application today would look at their insane 10 year old dyno pricing and be like - yup - reasonable

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6. gregsadetsky ◴[18 Sep 25 12:02 UTC] No.45288570[source]▶
what did you migrate to?
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7. TuringNYC ◴[18 Sep 25 12:36 UTC] No.45288865{3}[source]▶
Not OP, but we originally migrated to Digital Ocean. But now, all complex stuff is on AWS and dual-stack stuff is on Replit.
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8. jrochkind1 ◴[18 Sep 25 13:04 UTC] No.45289157[source]▶
in fact, if you actually look at the historical timeline, many of the things we think of as core to developer experience only were released after salesforce acquisition.

I think even multiple buildpacks at once only came a couple years after acquisition.

Possibly they were in the pipeline before acquisition, sure.

But I'd agree, heroku is still a better DX than almost any competitors, although it's features and pricing have really stagnated. So better DX as long as you don't need any features it doens't have. But it hasn't really been 'ruined' in any way, it just started appearing frozen in amber some years ago.

The new 'fir' platform is promissing, before that I didn't really know that any actual development was taking place in heroku, but it's a big move, modernizing things and setting the stage for more. Including slightly improved resource-to-pricing options. We'll see if it all works out...

9. gregsadetsky ◴[18 Sep 25 13:13 UTC] No.45289265{4}[source]▶
and what did you use to manage git push deployments, setting env vars to replicate the heroku features?

also, you used replit for the frontend deployment? or frontend and some backend?

thanks - just super interesting as I'm in the space and feedback/real cases are really useful