Heroku free goes away this month (2022-11) - Consider Cloudflare?

[Relequestual]

Heroku is ending the free ride. Fair enough, although I wish I had seen this before I completed the sign up... little rude.

(In fairness, I remember reading about it, but then saw the free tier on the pricing page still.)

The point being, it would be nice if there was support for another low cost service which others might already be using. For example, JSON Schema is already using Cloudflare. Workers feels like it would probably be a nice solution, and can run on a cron.

While express.js isn't supported, there are a few alternative solutions: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/workers-with-nodejs/418291
I don't know off-hand if any other packages would cause a problem on the Workers platform.

[jviotti]

cc @dsanders11 as I remember you talking about how some of these bots could be used outside Electron too.

[MarshallOfSound]

There isn't really a driver for us to do this as we have a Heroku Enterprise account (and therefore aren't impacted by the shutdown of the free tier). I'm not against someone figuring out how to run this on alternative platforms, but making significant code changes to support them is probably too far from what we'd take on as a reasonable maintenance burden.