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How Heroku trended on Hacker News

Heroku was mentioned 28,735 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2013 with 858 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Heroku appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Heroku

1. 1.Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails 1,763 points · 423 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? 1,006 points · 669 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Removal of Heroku free product plans 908 points · 574 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server 813 points · 556 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash 717 points · 198 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others 602 points · 295 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku 578 points · 75 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic 528 points · 299 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications 475 points · 78 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Heroku Fucking Console 472 points · 281 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com 462 points · 271 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? 451 points · 487 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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