[ksajadi]

It is clear that Heroku is not interested in reducing their prices. But I don’t think this is a Heroku problem. Vercel is also the same, which makes me think there is a fundamental issue with the PaaS business model that stops it from competing on price while the commoditised part their business (data centers) are always reducing their prices.

The challenge I always face with homebrew PaaS solutions is that you always end up moving from managing your app to managing your PaaS.

This might not be true right now but as complexity of your app grows it’s almost always the eventual outcome.

[IshKebab]

On the other hand for $3k/month you can just hire someone to do it for you (part time at least, but I doubt it's remotely a full-time job).

[shdh]

Heroku and Vercel don’t ever have any intention of competing on price

They offer convenience

[digianarchist]

It’s not just convenience. This single box is a single point of failure.