4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Render first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Made the mistake. Never again. Fly, railway, render. Avoid.”
regret · production · cmdtab · 2026-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from Heroku to Render about 6 months ago... there are a lot of sharp edges we've encountered since then”
regret · production · 0.5 yr · hkhanna · 2022-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We do use workers, but with hono so it's easy to deploy it on render with node.”
neutral · production · saxenaabhi · 2025-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was using the free tier of Render that only allowed for one instance of my app...duh.”
neutral · personal · Ostatnigrosh · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?