Heroku

Heroku ranks 59th overall in the platforms category with a composite score of 61 out of 100. The score summarises how the organization presents itself to developers across GitHub, its documentation, its packages and the wider community.

Its shipping velocity and developer reach come across as strong, and are what most developers will notice first when they land on the organization. By contrast, its developer experience and community engagement look minimal today, which is the clearest area where a small amount of focused work would visibly move the needle. Taken together, the picture is of a company whose public developer surface is neither uniformly polished nor uniformly weak, and where different audiences (contributors, integrators, evaluators) will likely form very different first impressions depending on which door they walk through.

Heroku maintains 864 public repositories on GitHub, built primarily in CSS, JavaScript and Ruby, which together have collected 25,893 stars and drawn contributions from 21 developers outside the core team, 87 of those repositories have seen commits in the last 90 days, a useful proxy for how much of the codebase is genuinely alive rather than archived.

For anyone evaluating Heroku as a technology choice, weighing a contribution, integrating the APIs, or comparing it against similar companies in the space, the sections below break down each of these signals in detail and link straight through to the underlying repositories, documentation and community threads that inform the score.