A strong alternative to Heroku: DigitalOcean App Platform

The text discusses the limitations of Heroku as a PaaS platform and presents an alternative solution in the form of DigitalOcean App Platform. It highlights key benefits of using App Platform such as cost-effective pricing, increased flexibility when building and scaling applications, smooth migration to IaaS solutions if needed, simplicity at lower costs, and focus on serving startups and SMBs. The text also provides data points comparing the costs of both platforms for various scenarios.