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0 pointsbaq9y ago0 comments

wait. you're comparing $25 with $75. it is 3x but it's still accounting noise by any standard imaginable unless you're running a charity server for an open source project.

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lmm9y ago

What about the standard of "I'm young and this is a side project I'm doing in a couple of hours at the weekends"? Of course once you have a real company with more than two customers $75 is nothing. But version 0.1 is often a tool that's only useful to you.

jalada9y ago

Heroku has free dynos for side projects, and hobby dynos ($7/dyno/month) for slightly-less-side projects. So that original $75/m quote isn't quite right for that situation.

lambdacomplete9y ago

Yes it is, our EC2 instances have 1 GB of ram, the 7$ dyno has 512 MB.

vacri9y ago

Young people doing side projects on the cheap... are they Heroku's bread and butter?

zeveb9y ago

> What about the standard of "I'm young and this is a side project I'm doing in a couple of hours at the weekends"?

Well, even someone who's young (for values of 'young' older than high-school age) is probably spending more than that every month on beer, food & entertainment each …

baqOP9y ago

i'd roll that into 'charity/hobby' part.

or you just host it on an old laptop hidden in your closet.

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