--- title: The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson | daily.dev description: In 2007, three Ruby developers – James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry – founded Heroku. Their mission was to make computing more accessible. Heroku... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson | daily.dev og:description: In 2007, three Ruby developers – James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry – founded Heroku. Their mission was to make computing more accessible. Heroku... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/72QSVn3On.png og:image:alt: The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson **[Lee Robinson](https://daily.dev/sources/leerob)** · 10 min read · 19 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In 2007, three Ruby developers – James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry – founded Heroku. Their mission was to make computing more accessible. Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud. In 2010, Heroku was bought by Salesforce for $212 million. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#ruby](https://daily.dev/tags/ruby), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on"},"datePublished":"2022-06-20T00:14:44.615Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:06:27.785Z","description":"In 2007, three Ruby developers – James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry – founded Heroku. Their mission was to make computing more accessible. Heroku...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/073bda478e362f4cc5227092ee5028c9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/073bda478e362f4cc5227092ee5028c9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lee Robinson","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lee Robinson","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/ab25518efc674062bce9d07bad829a6f","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/leerob"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-heroku-lee-robinson-72qsvn3on","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":19},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"aws,gcp,general-programming,git,heroku,kubernetes,rails,ruby,serverless,webdev","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lee Robinson","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/leerob"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Story of Heroku – Lee Robinson"}]} ```