I would say what they threw away was essentially a gimmick. Assuming the functio...

biot on March 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your brow...

I would say what they threw away was essentially a gimmick. Assuming the functionality of Heroku was the same before and after, publishing from github rather than publishing based on editing files online doesn't change their offering.