If you're running a project with a database, you need to take into account the cost of a Hobby dyno and a database add-on. I believe the cheapest Heroku Postgre

If you're running a project with a database, you need to take into account the cost of a Hobby dyno and a database add-on. I believe the cheapest Heroku Postgres plan is $9/mo. So, if you had a light-traffic, or demo, or staging project that was using the free dyno & postgres offering, you went from $0/mo to $16/mo. That's a big jump, depending on your use case. I'm all for well-restricted free offerings that let you try a platform; Heroku absolutely needed to change its plan. But if the cheapest web app with a db plan is $16/mo, people are going to look for something closer to $5/mo for their low-load deployments. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'd love to know.