Simon Willison on Nostr: npub1y4s7h…nvgt8 What I found frustrating about this is that Heroku had very ...
npub1y4s7hjcxn9e2dxakrl98taqevp8vk9fn4axpkejqcuvackcg7f6sgnvgt8 (npub1y4s…vgt8) What I found frustrating about this is that Heroku had very carefully designed their free tier to support their business model. It wasn't presented (or internally thought of) as a limited-time preview offer, it was a core part of their offering
And it worked great! Heroku were an extremely profitable business
... but years after the founders had left some Salesforce VP spotted a cost-saving opportunity, and the Heroku cultural norms had degraded such that they shut it down
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