<story><title>Removal of Heroku free product plans</title><url>https://help.heroku.com/RSBRUH58/removal-of-heroku-free-product-plans-faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vagabund</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth mentioning there&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; vibrant piracy community that abuses heroku&amp;#x27;s free tier for torrent to direct-download bots and myriad other purposes.  Thousands and thousands of fake accounts using the resources to their limits 24&amp;#x2F;7.  It&amp;#x27;s likely also the reason Google&amp;#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions.  I can understand why Salesforce has felt the need to restrict access.</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can&amp;#x27;t make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I&amp;#x27;m confident we&amp;#x27;d have less developers in the world.&lt;p&gt;It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and tools talk about and try to emulate that experience. I recall polling on twitter a few months back which the key feature was:&lt;p&gt;- git push heroku master&lt;p&gt;- Heroku add-ons&lt;p&gt;- Heroku Postgres&lt;p&gt;- Review apps&lt;p&gt;And the reality is any one of those could standard on their own. But put together, Heroku simply lets you forget about ops and focus on shipping, and shipping is king.&lt;p&gt;I fully get it&amp;#x27;s a business, but can&amp;#x27;t help but feel this is the writing on the wall for the future.&lt;p&gt;Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And may be trying to figure out how to offer free Postgres databases, cause shutting down databases with 3 months notice feels pretty short. Not sure if that means deleting the data itself or what, but ouch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s likely also the reason Google&amp;#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions.&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, piracy forums have guides to fake being a student to get an unlimited account, then mirror huge (1TB+) gdrives full of pirated content to your own. This was (is?) happening on a huge scale.</text></comment>
<story><title>Removal of Heroku free product plans</title><url>https://help.heroku.com/RSBRUH58/removal-of-heroku-free-product-plans-faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vagabund</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth mentioning there&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; vibrant piracy community that abuses heroku&amp;#x27;s free tier for torrent to direct-download bots and myriad other purposes.  Thousands and thousands of fake accounts using the resources to their limits 24&amp;#x2F;7.  It&amp;#x27;s likely also the reason Google&amp;#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions.  I can understand why Salesforce has felt the need to restrict access.</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can&amp;#x27;t make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I&amp;#x27;m confident we&amp;#x27;d have less developers in the world.&lt;p&gt;It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and tools talk about and try to emulate that experience. I recall polling on twitter a few months back which the key feature was:&lt;p&gt;- git push heroku master&lt;p&gt;- Heroku add-ons&lt;p&gt;- Heroku Postgres&lt;p&gt;- Review apps&lt;p&gt;And the reality is any one of those could standard on their own. But put together, Heroku simply lets you forget about ops and focus on shipping, and shipping is king.&lt;p&gt;I fully get it&amp;#x27;s a business, but can&amp;#x27;t help but feel this is the writing on the wall for the future.&lt;p&gt;Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And may be trying to figure out how to offer free Postgres databases, cause shutting down databases with 3 months notice feels pretty short. Not sure if that means deleting the data itself or what, but ouch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>base</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s one of the reasons, but the main one is economical.&lt;p&gt;For a long time they dealt with the free accounts, so in a way they have already a lot of protections in place, and if they wanted they could keep the existing free accounts and just not accept further signups for this account type.</text></comment>