The main “gotcha” is that some parts work a bit differently from what you may be used to with Heroku, so the first time around getting set up with Render might take some more time.

But after that I think it’s a superior product in many ways. More affordable, great customer support, active developed, etc.

I guess the two things that can still use improvement are having an add-on marketplace like Heroku has (I’m sure that will come) and better metrics (they are working on this).

But they will get there whereas Heroku’s development seems stagnated. So yeah Render seems like a better long-term option 👌