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804 points jryio | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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jdprgm ◴[21 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45662112[source]▶

Just saw Nate Berkopec who does a lot of rails performance stuff posting about the same idea yesterday saying Heroku is 25-50x price for performance which is so insane. They clearly have zero interest in competing on price.

It's a shame they don't just license all their software stack at a reasonable price with a similar model like Sidekiq and let you sort out actually decent hardware. It's insane to consider Heroku if anything has gotten more expensive and worse compared to a decade ago yet in comparison similar priced server hardware has gotten WAY better of a decade. $50 for a dyno with 1 GB of ram in 2025 is robbery. It's even worse considering running a standard rails app hasn't changed dramatically from a resources perspective and if anything has become more efficient. It's comical to consider how many developers are shipping apps on Heroku for hundreds of dollars a month on machines with worse performance/resources than the macbook they are developing it on.

It's the standard playback that damn near everything in society is going for though just jacking prices and targeting the wealthiest least price sensitive percentiles instead of making good products at fair prices for the masses.

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teiferer ◴[21 Oct 25 21:52 UTC] No.45662194[source]▶

>>45662112 #

It's insane how much my local shop charges for an oil change, I can do it much cheaper myself!

It's insane how much a restaurant charges for a decent steak, I can do it much cheaper myself!

...!

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xmprt ◴[21 Oct 25 22:03 UTC] No.45662303[source]▶

>>45662194 #

Not the best comment but I agree with the sentiment. I fear far too often, people complain about price when there are competitors/other cheaper options that could be used with a little more effort. If people cared so much then they should just use the alternative.

No one gets hurt if someone else chooses to waste their money on Heroku so why are people complaining? Of course it applies in cases where there aren't a lot of competitors but there are literally hundreds of different of different options for deploying applications and at least a dozen of them are just as reliable and cheaper than Heroku.

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1. strken ◴[21 Oct 25 22:53 UTC] No.45662760[source]▶

>>45662303 #

The problem with Heroku's pricing is that it's set high enough that I no longer use it and neither does anyone else I know. I suspect they either pivoted to a different target market than me, which would be inconvenient but I'd be okay with it, or killed off their own growth potential by trying to extract revenue, which I would find sad.

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2. xp84 ◴[22 Oct 25 15:50 UTC] No.45670984[source]▶

>>45662760 (TP) #

I’m pretty sure their target market is people who have already built something kind of complex on there and don’t have the time/money budget to do a big migration. In that way, they know their customers are stuck but can afford the current prices, so keeping pricing static or gradually increasing makes sense.

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