$10 Million Round For Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (YC W08)

That's actually really cool. I'm not ruby/rails user, but if I were I would certainly use Heroku, it is one of the YC backed companies that really stand out for me.<p>From the design of their website to the naming schemes, the price points and so on it all seems to be equally well thought out.<p>Back when considering which platform to try next (python/django or ruby/rails) I was very impressed with the way they did their best to minimize the surprise factor and to really inform the user up front of what they're getting in to.<p>The documentation is also excellent. I still don't know if I made the right choice, but I'm a bit too far in to django now to easily back out again so I guess I'll stick to it, but to see Heroku has now found very solid financing is definitely a factor to consider.

Heroku user here. One word encompasses Heroku: incredible. Fastest Rails deployment I have ever seen. I'm not surprised that they received the funding—more like really excited.<p>EDIT: Also, the add-ons they have are really good, and they have a ton in the pipeline. They have all the tools I needed to get up-and-running (including a tool that sends your local DB to the production Heroku server or vice versa in one command).

One of the longstanding hesitations for cloud computing is "my whole business will depend on someone else's business, what if they go under?"<p>With $10mm in the bank, 60k apps in the cloud, Amazon's AWS backend, Heroku's rockstar team, and a real revenue model, I think it's safe to say that you can bet your business on Heroku.<p>My new project sure as hell will...

Anybody knows what percentage of these 60,000 apps are actual paying clients? If e.g. 50,000 of these apps are free, even for a modest cost of $3/month to host each one, that quickly adds up to ~$2mn of cash burn / year.<p>Another interesting question is how well they scale. <a href="http://success.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">http://success.heroku.com/</a> has some interesting companies, but nothing with very high traffic (or am I wrong)?<p>PS. I'm a happy heroku user myself.

Congrats guys - 60,000 app milestone last week, $10m funding this week.<p>It's a great service and I'm glad to see it continue to grow.

Congratulations to Heroku! I've been using their service for years and it is truly awesome. I hope this money pushes them even further.<p>One note on the article though, it says: "Heroku aims to make software development more accessible for a wider range of people. It does so by providing a browser-based programming environment that cuts out steps traditionally needed to produce RoR applications."<p>Didn't they cut that entirely? Even Heroku Garden is closed right?

Wondering ? has anyone migrated from engine yard to heroku or vice versa, and reasoning. I've read several reasons on why one is better than the other, but just wondering what some of the users experiences are

I'm wondering why they need to raise money at all. Aren't they charging for their services? I'd feel more comfortable knowing that they're a self-sustaining business, as opposed to a startup that needs to raise money. Maybe there's a good reason, though...?

Grats guys. One of my favorite web services, ever. One day when my actual job keeps me a bit less busy, I'll be upgrading my service and using it even more.

This my be the wrong question since I'm not too familiar with Heroku, but is anyone working on something similar for Django?

As a guy who learned a little php for the first time last year, and then moved on to Ruby late in the year Heroku has been very helpful to kicking Rails servers live.<p>A+ for ease of use, and as I learn more I see opportunities in other server environments. My cofounder is kicking up nginx, thin and padrino<p>My favorite heroku project (and personal first) <a href="http://imagebrowser.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http://imagebrowser.heroku.com</a> enjoy. Semantic entity extraction and image browsing as well as search within twitter streams.

I was so impressed with the design and usability of Heroku's site and system - it's near perfection, which is a hard thing to say about software.

From the rate that these guys innovate, it's obvious they're working hard - and at the right things. I'd bet this will pay off for the investors.<p>I have one app on heroku, it's probably easier to use, but I have more apps on Google Appengine with jruby simply because it stays free-er for longer. I've come up against Heroku's free limits.

I loaded my first Heroku app last week. As promised, they made it very easy and snappy to deploy. When I ran into a problem, I was able to file a ticket and get a resolution by the next business day. Phenomenal service, especially considering I was only using their free offering.

congratulations!

Good for them. Heroku provides great service, and I wish them well.

Love heroku for my micro sinatra apps. A well deserved $10mil

It is really cool startup. Smart concept - git powered deployment, very clear and beautifully visualized information, and excellent, even stunning web design. Add to that some Japanese/Zen flavor and it's almost perfect. Very good taste.<p>I'm glad that they're successful. It's good when a good taste wins.