I applaud the effort here, it looks like a worthy project. I like the idea of effortless git deployments & databases. Easy upgrades, backups, analytics etc.
But as others have pointed out, to call it a self-hostable Heroku & Netlify is indeed missing the point. It’s a bit of an oxymoron right?
The benefit of those services is in their CDN network, and the fact that they provide the platform and you don’t have to maintain your own server. Things I do not get with maintaining my own VPS.
Doesn’t mean I’m still not interested in this project, it looks pretty nice! But I would approach the marketing differently.
IMO you'd pay for Heroku because of the ability to have one vendor deal with your full stack, including Postgres, and having the ability to roll back / scale up with relative ease. You pay for that ease and support. (Everyone on the support team was a dev too)
For some teams it makes less sense than others. You can also probably find combinations of vendors to deal with most of the above.
bonus feat for heroku for a lot of teams is that their infrastructure bill comes from exactly ONE provider that includes your appservers, database, caches etc. this eases biling/budget things in some companies by an order of magnitude or two.
But as others have pointed out, to call it a self-hostable Heroku & Netlify is indeed missing the point. It’s a bit of an oxymoron right?
The benefit of those services is in their CDN network, and the fact that they provide the platform and you don’t have to maintain your own server. Things I do not get with maintaining my own VPS.
Doesn’t mean I’m still not interested in this project, it looks pretty nice! But I would approach the marketing differently.