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0 pointskretaceous3y ago0 comments

I relate to this.

> We appreciate Heroku’s legacy as a learning platform. Many students have their first experience with deploying an application into the wild on Heroku.

I'm one of those students. It's good that they will open up something free for students but I suspect it'll never be the same as just signing up and git push heroku master.

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duxup3y ago

It also misses anyone else looking to learn.

Self study folks, anyone without a bootcamp connected to a sales team, non traditional schools ... you're out.

I remember changing careers and studying and a lot of sites promised free stuff but if you weren't connected to whomever they worked with / a traditional school you were kinda SOL unless you wanted to go begging on twitter or something like that.

Granted I get they don't want to just be handing out mass quantities of free stuff too / I'm sure people abuse that to no end.

tomcam3y ago

> Self study folks, anyone without a bootcamp connected to a sales team, non traditional schools ... you're out.

Disagree. Traditionally you pay for education through property taxes or tuition or whatever. A determined person in this field can cough up $20 a month for a very capable server.

When I was young and poor 40 years ago, to teach myself programming I spent all my money on books that cost $35 a pop at least, which would be something like $100 in today’s money.

duxup3y ago

I don’t know what you’re disagreeing with.

csjh3y ago

Render has pretty good free tier benefits, but no git push render master

ndneighbor3y ago

Disclaimer: I work at Railway.app as a Support Engineer

You might be interested in Railway's CLI deployments: `railway up` from your project root gets ya going.

https://docs.railway.app/deploy/railway-up

jclem3y ago

Disclaimer: I like Railway.

Heroku VMs had the kitchen sink, and I miss that with Railway. A pretty standard Phoenix app with Phoenix’s built-in auth doesn’t build and the user is presented with build errors about nixpacks. Now there’s a good deal I have to learn just to get bcrypt to build.

anurag3y ago

Render does have auto deploys from GitHub/Lab so just `git push` is how people use us. Are you using a different Git host?

dicriseg3y ago

If anything this saves a step. For me, git push heroku master was more often git push && git push heroku master at least when starting out.

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korostelevm3y ago

Check out https://www.cyclic.sh/

Serious free tier, git push, serverless express.js plus AWS databases.

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duxup3y ago

It also misses anyone else looking to learn.

Self study folks, anyone without a bootcamp connected to a sales team, non traditional schools ... you're out.

Granted I get they don't want to just be handing out mass quantities of free stuff too / I'm sure people abuse that to no end.

tomcam3y ago

> Self study folks, anyone without a bootcamp connected to a sales team, non traditional schools ... you're out.

Disagree. Traditionally you pay for education through property taxes or tuition or whatever. A determined person in this field can cough up $20 a month for a very capable server.

When I was young and poor 40 years ago, to teach myself programming I spent all my money on books that cost $35 a pop at least, which would be something like $100 in today’s money.

duxup3y ago

I don’t know what you’re disagreeing with.

csjh3y ago

Render has pretty good free tier benefits, but no git push render master

ndneighbor3y ago

Disclaimer: I work at Railway.app as a Support Engineer

You might be interested in Railway's CLI deployments: `railway up` from your project root gets ya going.

https://docs.railway.app/deploy/railway-up

jclem3y ago

Disclaimer: I like Railway.

anurag3y ago

Render does have auto deploys from GitHub/Lab so just `git push` is how people use us. Are you using a different Git host?