How to Keep Your Free Heroku App Online Forever – Morgan Newman – Medium

If you’re anything like me (read: human), you probably don’t want to pay much money or spend time fussing with the setup for your small app or prototype. Lately I’ve been enjoying Heroku’s free tier…

A major thorn in my side with Heroku’s free tier, however, is the fact that Heroku will put your app to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity.

While I’m sure Heroku appreciates how this might motivate you to become a paid user, the next hiring manager to view your app probably won’t be impressed when it takes 5–10 seconds to load from a cold boot...