Comment by czhu12

I’ve been working on https://canine.sh which is a free, open source Heroku alternative for 2 years now.

It’s exactly the product I wish I had when I started my previous company. Running on PaaS is incredible for devex but the pricing is bonkers, and the vendor lock in makes it really hard to deal with annual price increases. We spent close to 400k / year for just 128GB combined fleet in our last startup on Heroku.

Canine tries to get the best of both worlds: developer friendly PaaS with no lockin or price gouging.

Just added build packs as a build option recently.

Also got a sponsorship from the portainer folks which lets me work on this close to full time

Hoping this saves someone the headache I had two years ago.