Heroku

Erik Michaels-Ober 38 YC • CEO, Co-founder | Breaker Recommended

With Heroku, I’ll don’t have to worry about being (or hiring) an ops person and can focus on building my product. Amazing product!

Jeff LaBarge 19 • Co-founder/CTO | Tule Recommended

Expensive, but saves me a lot of time

Greg Belote 98 YC • Founder & CTO | WeFunder Recommended

They have their rough edges sometimes (cost, performance) but that's dwarfed by ease of use. We don't have time to deal with DevOps. Maybe someday we'll switch to AWS so we can deploy faster (takes us 8min to deploy code via Heroku, partly because we have a slow-to-boot rails app), but "git push" works really well at our stage. $50k in YC credits is sweet, too.

Ryan Jackson 19 • Founder | Paid Recommended

Easy to get started, but can grow expensive. It has some pretty significant limitations though like max 30s response time before a timeout is thrown.

Gordon Wintrob 17 • Software Engineer | StackLead Recommended

"git push heroku master" makes it insanely easy to deploy.

Jason Crawford 52 • Co-Founder & CEO | Fieldbook Recommended

Simple and just works: git push heroku master. Takes a huge ops load off your team vs. rolling your own, even if you're using AWS EC2. No real vendor lock-in; you just write regular apps and deploy them.

Kim Miller 19 TRUE • CEO, Co-Founder | Guevara Recommended

Simple, although a little expensive. Good early on.

Paul Arterburn 36 TS • Director of Engineering | Unreasonable Group Recommended

Be careful about thinking you're outgrowing Heroku too soon. Developers != server admins. A custom AWS setup can be a massive time sink that might just slow down your development. You'll pay for it somewhere.

Ian Hunter 80 • CoFounder | Founderkit Recommended

Not having to worry about ops is huge - Security updates and metrics are managed for you. Super nice to just git push and be live. Bit expensive but it's worth it to have less headache.

Oren Teich 84 TRUE FUEL • CEO, Co-founder | Canvas Recommended

While I'm biased, we have saved astronomical amounts of time by not worrying about ops at all. Well worth every penny for us.

Mattan Griffel 25 YC • CEO | One Month Recommended

Super simple, way easier to manage than Amazon AWS itself.

Anonymous Recommended

Have used for several products, always great for a quick bootstrap. The new Review Apps functionality is excellent for Github Flow processes.

Brad Flora 14 YC • Co-Founder | Perfect Audience Recommended

Saved us tons of cost and time.

Jordan Buller 16 YC • Principal | Perfect Audience Recommended

Great at the beginning, hard to use once you scale and have problems with memory allocation especially.

Brad Van Vugt 18 YC • Cofounder | Sendwithus Recommended

Easiest way to go from 0-1.

Anonymous Recommended

Was able to get us very, very far without worrying about DevOps--far longer than we should have. Eventually, we hit platform-specific issues that forced us to move. Wouldn't have been worth it without free credit.

Keith Ryu 38 YC • Co-founder & CEO | OnboardIQ Recommended

50k free yc credits. easy to deploy and manage. Only con we heard was price, but we have that covered via yc

Ilan Zechory 84 YC • Co-founder and President | Genius Recommended

A little rigid at times, and we've had downtime issues, but it saves us a lot of headaches and we don't have to hire a devops staff

William Pollet 19 YC • CTO | Birdly Recommended

Easy and quick way to host my apps. Reliable service.

Darren Rush 23 • CEO | Moonlight Labs Recommended

Still the best option until you are ready to pay someone for actual devops.

Stedman Blake Hood 20 • Co-founder | PlateJoy Recommended

So damn easy.

Phil Salesses 21 • Founder & CTO | HiOperator Recommended

In the early days, and things are small, it saves a ton of time.

Michael Kong 13 YC • eng | GiveCampus Recommended

expensive, but simple, and lots of tools and monitoring available

Anonymous Neutral

Expensive.

Conor Lee 20 YC • Founder / CEO | TellFi Recommended

It's easy to use and flexible, but not cheap

Priyank Singh 9 YC • Co-founder | Stilt Recommended

Awesome to use.

Maxwell Salzberg 28 YC • Founder | Diaspora Recommended

easy, awesome, and still cheaper than an ops person

Anonymous Neutral

Expensive

Ryan Jackson 22 YC • Founder | Paid Recommended

It's great for getting started.

Anonymous Neutral

Can require a lot of investing in the platform without many performance guarantees; we're mostly on it because of the free credits

Matt Harris 14 YC • CEO | Sendwithus Recommended

Expensive but helps with scaling