I always wished I could pay Heroku like $50/mo for a "side project" plan where it was easy to spin up small apps and databases. I don't need it to be free, I just need it to be kind of easy and painless to spin up a bunch of random side projects. Some kind of limit is fine.
This is my problem as I'm evaluating competitors. I have a few tiny services that don't need constant uptime (the heroku sleep and wait-to-wake was perfectly fine).
Most places charge per-service and it's not clear that I can have 8 services that mostly sleep (and use less total uptime than a single always-on service).
I'm fine to pay a bit to keep these running, but $7 / service / month doesn't make sense for little toys (an actual business is a very different story)
