McCrea: One-third of customers pay despite Heroku's free native autoscaler
Adam McCrea · Episode 556 | Rails Autoscale · Jun 29, 2021 · at 21:36
Adam McCrea explains that Heroku's free native autoscaler did not materially harm Rails Autoscale's business.
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“The reality is it did not impact my business in a noticeable way. And I still get about a third of my customers are using those higher tier Heroku Dynos. So about a third of my customers could be using Heroku's free Autoscaler, but they choose Rails Autoscaler instead.”
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