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Good question! I have actually considered doing so! I haven't taken an in-depth look at to how their add-on platform works but it's on my short-term to-do list.

Would be nice to get an even more "plug-and-play" feel. Though, thankfully setting it up manually isn't hard at all, but it is indeed a nice touch to create an add-on for it.

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Why would Heroku let you be an add-on provider in order to under-cut their pricing model? Makes no sense.

Well, let me point out that there already is an add-on called SimpleWorker which provides external worker hosting.

Basically what it comes down it is that you host your workers there, and not on Heroku. Same thing. Why you ask? I have no clue! :)

You've made this remark twice now. The fact is that Heroku have always been open this sort of scaling (and there's a fork of delayed_job which does autoscaling of workers on Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too.

https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

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