Heroku

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell

Y Combinator

The cloud platform where Product Hunt's initial bills were paid out of Ryan Hoover's personal credit card before funding.

How To Hire AI Engineers (ft. James Brady and Adam Wiggins of Elicit)

Latent Space

A cloud platform as a service founded by Adam Wiggins, which standardized the early development experience.

Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal

Latent Space

A past PaaS provider whose 'graduation problem' (companies outgrowing its capabilities) is a key lesson for Modal.

The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus

Y Combinator

A cloud platform-as-a-service. Ed McManus suggested it as an alternative for the characters' infrastructure, even better than AWS for certain aspects.

How to Build Products Users Love with Kevin Hale (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 7)

Y Combinator

Its sign-up page is used as an example of how to convey ease of use and scalability through design.

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam

Y Combinator

A platform-as-a-service that was a major inspiration for Parse, which was described as 'Heroku for mobile'.

How To Build A Website in 2026

Ali Abdaal

Mentioned as a free option for website hosting, but the speaker suggests beginners focus on content rather than optimizing for free technical solutions.

Office Hours with Kevin & Qasar

Y Combinator

Mentioned as a potential area for tactical problem-solving during company office hours.

Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design

Y Combinator

A cloud platform mentioned as inspiration for SolidStage, highlighting the complexity of building similar services without containerization.

How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School

Y Combinator

Tracy DiNunzio Interview: Part 1 (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

A platform-as-a-service mentioned as an example of on-demand infrastructure for startups.

How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School

Y Combinator

A cloud platform mentioned as a service that an LLM was used to set up hosting for.

AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story

Y Combinator

Used as an example of a foundational technology built upon cloud computing, similar to how new layers of technology will build upon LLMs.

The Better Customer–Startups or Big Enterprise?

Y Combinator

A platform where customers often churn as their companies grow larger, needing more robust or customized solutions than Heroku provides for scaling organizations.

Work at a Startup Expo 2019

Y Combinator

Cloud platform used by GiveCampus for deployment, part of their basic tech stack.