Great for early stage products
May 12, 2021

Great for early stage products

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Heroku Platform

We host all our web applications on Heroku. It was the fastest and simplest way to build our proof of concept years ago, and it has scaled well with us over the years. Good communication from the company on periodic scheduled maintenance, and we've never had an issue with platform reliability.
  • Server hosting.
  • Database hosting.
  • Pricing - more expensive than other modern options.
  • Marketplace add-ons sometimes change with little notice.
  • Reliability.
  • Simple management console.
  • Integrations.
  • Very fast initial launch.
  • Long term: more expensive than other options would have been.

Do you think Heroku Platform delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Heroku Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Heroku Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Heroku Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Heroku Platform again?

Yes

Heroku is great for early-stage products. It's very simple to set up multiple environments in a continuous delivery pipeline, and dozens (hundreds?) of one-click integrations with third party tools make it incredibly easy to experiment with different offerings. We're happy to spend time building our apps, not managing servers.

The convenience does come with a cost, and at scale, it's more expensive than other options we've looked at more recently. Overall, we've been happy with Heroku as a platform.

Heroku Platform Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
Not Rated
Scalability
5
Platform management overhead
9
Workflow engine capability
Not Rated
Platform access control
3
Services-enabled integration
9
Development environment creation
Not Rated
Development environment replication
Not Rated
Issue monitoring and notification
8
Issue recovery
Not Rated
Upgrades and platform fixes
8