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📣 Igor_Wiwi

Heroku Alternative for 2023?


I want to build a small MVP project. From my last experience most time consuming part of development was deployment infrastructure. Is there any tools which allow to bootstrap an application as fast as possible?

  👤 0x54MUR41 Accepted Answer ✓
Some alternatives were previously discussed on these threads. Hopefully, they are still relevant till this date.

Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32599398

Ask HN: Alternative to Heroku https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258126

Ask HN: Cheaper Heroku alternatives for Rails apps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755202

👤 jjice
I had a good experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Basically Heroku on AWS. I used it with Docker, but they support having a definition file like Heroku's Procfile as well. It abstracts most of the underlying infra like EC2 and VPCs if you don't want to get into that. It also gives you access to everything else AWS has like RDS. Upgrade paths are simple as well since you're on AWS.
👤 KomoD
Fly.io is pretty decent
👤 j-rom
I've been using Cloudflare pages for the past few projects. It's fast to prototype and to get a quick proof-of-concept deployed and working.
👤 flybayer
https://www.flightcontrol.dev (I’m a cofounder)
👤 wilbertliu
We have some great alternatives these days.

- render.com (I’m using it)

- fly.io

- railway.app

- DigitalOcean App Platform

- Vercel

So far that’s all that came to mind.

👤 achempion
render.com seems to be the common alternative
👤 joshxyz
koyeb.com