alt Hacker News"Depends on what you used it for" applies to just about any platform.
Realistically, self-hosting the PaaS defeats the purpose of a PaaS for the crowd Heroku was attracting.
"Depends on what you used it for" applies to just about any platform.
Realistically, self-hosting the PaaS defeats the purpose of a PaaS for the crowd Heroku was attracting.
Heroku was one of the first to have that seamless UX, only after which others like Fly or Render or Railway came to copy it. I wager people were primarily attracted to that user experience and only minimally cared that it was fully hosted versus not, because there was also AWS at that time.