this is big for junior developers who may not have set up a sophisticated environment before. It also cuts down on set up time for new machines and new hires
This. I'm just getting started playing with Heroku as a hobby. I've not used Postgres before, so getting things set up correctly on my dev machine was not a "install one app, go" kind of experience. I spent at least an hour reading / trying / understanding. Having something like this would have meant 1 more hour of making, rather than trying to get Postgres setup.
For hobby (or any) projects, 1 extra hour doing what I want to do is a big deal. I'm only able to spend about 5 hours per week on my hobby, getting 20% of my time last week back would have been a big deal to me.
This. I'm just getting started playing with Heroku as a hobby. I've not used Postgres before, so getting things set up correctly on my dev machine was not a "install one app, go" kind of experience. I spent at least an hour reading / trying / understanding. Having something like this would have meant 1 more hour of making, rather than trying to get Postgres setup.
For hobby (or any) projects, 1 extra hour doing what I want to do is a big deal. I'm only able to spend about 5 hours per week on my hobby, getting 20% of my time last week back would have been a big deal to me.