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That's true, but it also works in the other direction: you get slashdotted, which kills your 2 running dynos. If you're away from your computer, your traffic is long gone by the time you get back, and Heroku missed some revenue because you didn't scale up.

Anyway, Heroku's business model isn't about making money on their oblivious users, I would rather bet on their add-on store's which now has a very minimal marginal cost to expand.

I talked with them too - and yes, they do not intend to release such thing, because "everyone's scaling needs are diffent".

I think needs aren't so diverse and there's quite a huge mass who has almost identical needs.

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Re:I'm 15. I just got covered on Mashable and TNW on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @06:15AM (#2279183)
congratulations, that's a nice achievement, especially at 15 :)