Is `fly postgres create --name restoredDb --snapshot-id backupId` that hard that's it's a deal breaker?
> support for Heroku buildpacks
I haven't tried it but there's some buildpack support: https://fly.io/docs/reference/configuration/#builder
We are not Heroku. It is ok for you to not like what we're doing. We're building something different. We've never even _said_ we were a Heroku alternative, we just liked their UX for deploying apps and decided to roll with something similar.
I would rather say 'It no longer works as a business for Salesforce.'
Our app has two components, a backend on Heroku and distributed frontend on Fly. The backend relies on a managed database, and I have not had to touch it in 6 years. Heroku does a great job providing confidence that the managed database will Just Work. The current Fly Postgres offering doesn't provide this confidence.
We shipped "automated" Postgres because we couldn't get any fully managed DB providers to pay attention to us when we were small. I expect we'll have an option running on Fly infrastructure in the next six months.
Our Redis is fully managed, so you can get an idea of how it might play out: https://fly.io/docs/reference/redis/