Company · mentioned 22 times
Cloud application platform company and early platform as a service provider, acquired by Salesforce.
Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 30 Oct
Paul Copplestone says Heroku popularized Postgres, which had scaling limits, so Supabase has wrapped Postgres with tooling to scale indefinitely.Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 12 Sept
Jeffrey Morgan says the 2010s Platform-as-a-Service companies like Heroku rested on the idea that being a layer on top of something else leaves a startup vulnerable, which he says is absolutely not true in the AI world, where going up the stack can be better.Scaling DevTools· 10 Dec 2025
Heroku had about a billion dollars in revenue, according to Will Stewart.Tech Lounge· 17 Apr 2025
Will says Northflank's price on its own hardware is about half the price of Heroku.A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders· 8 Apr 2024
Dylan says angels saw that startups could build developer products in spaces with large incumbents, citing Stripe, PayPal and Heroku as examples.