Not happy with Heroku's recent announcement and looked at https://hatchbox.io/ . If anything I'd prefer whatever is most similar to Heroku: automated deploys, some VMs to choose from, tight database integration (no worries about replication, backups etc). hatchbox's pricing seems too low (too good to be true?) There might be a market for those trying to leave Heroku by offering a great, comprehensive and straight forward migration guide. https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku

What would it mean for a PaaS to be open source? Does it mean you have to deploy it yourself on your own hardware/cloud? That seems like it would obviate the benefits of PaaS where someone else is taking care of running everything underneath it for you, and you just have to worry about your own application code.

there's already an alternative for this and it's northflank.com