[themanmaran]

> Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features [1]

This sentence is what really seals the death for me. I used to be a big Heroku fan. And used them as late as 2023. But tbh it very quickly fell behind the capabilities and devex of products like Supabase and Vercel.

While I agree that it will probably stick around in zombie mode for another decade, if Salesforce doesn't want to improve the product, it will just slowly bleed users until the cost to maintain it is less than the revenue.

[1] https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

[jaggederest]

Concur. I was the first user[1] but not using it any more, sadly. It's been dead to me for about 5 years, functionally.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31349536

[dang]

Wow we have to add that post to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights!

(Unfortunately the only way to view that list is reverse-chronological but we'll eventually change that)

[vasco]

And then some senior leader will say some bullshit about not being a growth driver and just being a distraction and done, killed off.