The market has clearly passed it by. I was a huge Heroku fan. It even inspired my first startup in 2014 (basically a healthcare tech version of Heroku). At the time, I thought it was the future, and found messing around in AWS, etc., too time-consuming and unnecessary. That was when Rails was all the rage.

> At the time, I thought it was the future, and found messing around in AWS, etc., too time-consuming and unnecessary.

Sounds like you were right on both counts?