Management: “we’re going into maintenance mode”
Devs: “You mean we get to work on whatever we want?!”
Maybe we could say they went uphill instead for a while? Or something
So few people used it. I guess this provided a negative signal to their management about the adoption rate of new features. And then everything eventually just died.
An update of Heroku
The large customers still get what they want as long as the ask isn’t too big and that’s why you see new features even though the product is in maintenance mode.
True, it can't compete with AWS/GCP/Azure if you're large scale. But most of us are not large scale, we just need a no frills experience instead of dealing with 27 nested panels just to spin up a VM.
I don’t think it’s impossible for them to survive. Salesforce bought them more than 10 years ago and did little to support growth of Heroku. And yet they’re still around and people still ask „is there something new with comparable customer experience?” because they don’t mind paying more
DO has always been a bit rich for my blood though, and even a low cost hetzner VPS has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago. I could be wrong there though I usually use Vultr for their SYD region.
Less cores but probably 5x more performance per core now.