But you get 1000 free hours? (if you give them credit card data)

If you just want one 24h-app + a bit that's better, if you can live with <=18h for all your apps it is worse.

Nice, now I can just put all my apps in one dyno, and I get free hosting. This is actually better for me. With SSL!

I think it's time to move away from Heroku or create multiple accounts to pool together "low usage" apps.

Before // After

18h for every app // 24h for one app

Yup, basically killing most free apps, sad times.

Hey, I am the PM for this project. It's not our intent to kill free apps. I love weekend hacks and small pet projects myself and Free dynos are still perfect for that. What we've found is that 1000 hours covered about 95% of the Free dyno usage on the platform. In most cases, if you have a bunch of Free apps, they're usually sleeping since they're not receiving traffic. I'd love to hear any additional feedback. You can reach me at [email protected].

I have many free apps as well as paid apps running. But I always used Heroku because I didn't have to worry about limitations unless a particular app has high volume. Now that it's become a monstrous burden, I'll definitely be moving most of my apps to a vps/DigitalOcean.

You just lost a huge number of free apps that could potentially become paid apps.

TLDR: Hassle of keeping track of account wide dyno use > hassle of running on vps

I am honestly curious how many of the "huge number of free apps" would actually become big paying apps. I suspect its quite a low number.

You'd be surprised. And at their rates for paid apps, even a single mid-low traffic paid app can run $xxx per month (incl. db).