They are right for now, but will start loosing clients soon. Zulip & Discord provide better plans without major feature set downgrade.

We tested Zulip not too long ago, in short - UI is not so good, but in general still useful: https://nixsanctuary.com/zulip-review-through-slack-glasses/

Zulip and Discord will charge more once their growth plateau, as every one else.

Stop giving up, we tested several alternatives not too long ago and it's possible to get a small DB for free: https://nixsanctuary.com/best-paas-backend-hosting-heroku-vs...

Great as mini-solution, appreciate it.

Added, thx.

Maybe save it to HTML file and then convert to PDF?

Got too much fighting time with .yml configs on Fly, deploy from git is must have nowadays.

Yeah, I see it from both sides. I lean towards being an independent developer doing a lot of prototyping so I like Fly's tolerance of quicker, less strict practices in this regard. Not had any problems with fly.toml so far, but my apps are relatively simple.

We tried[0] to find Heroku alternative a couple of weeks ago. In short Render.com feels solid and Railway.app very promising, hope they will do more progress soon.

[0] https://nixsanctuary.com/best-paas-backend-hosting-heroku-vs...

I migrated a static site and a few apis off heroku onto render.com a few months ago and the experience has been really great. Fills the niche of Heroku perfectly for my use cases.