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0 pointsignoramous3y ago0 comments

> But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps.

Heroku was a product for its time. These days, I see most students use replit.com (in India, at least), including as part of course curricula at universities (paid plans). I'd say replit has since replaced heroku as the getting started tool of choice.

As for heroku, there are many NewCloud companies waiting to pounce: fly.io, deno.com, vercel.com, netifly.com, railway.app, workers.dev some of the popular ones here, while there's also resurgence in packaged / DIY PaaS FOSS alternatives like supabase.com, encore.dev, temporal.io et al.

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zoomzoom3y ago

Yes! The integration of the development environment back into the platform (Heroku actually did this in their very first product as well) is what makes replit so magical, in my view.

At Coherence (withcoherence.com) we are looking to go beyond the NewCloud companies you mention here (which are all awesome), to provide the same kind of integrated experience with Cloud IDE, CI, and Deployment all in one configuration, but running in your own cloud account using managed services. (Disclosure // cofounder)

oofdere3y ago

https://deta.sh is another serverless option but I do worry about their path to profitability.

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