I'm sure a lot of you launched some pet project that is free to use, has traffic of few dozens of people per month and you don't have any immediate plans to monetize it, just want to keep it alive and see what happens later.
While it's quite easy to find free hosting for such projects, it seems rather difficult to find free database hosting for it. Most database free tiers come with very tricky conditions like wiping all content every now and then, having to redeploy regularly, etc. - this makes them not really usable in production. And the paid tiers jump easily from 0 to $50/mo which is not feasible for free pet project.
I am talking about nothing fancy, a few megabytes of Postgres with negligible traffic. How do you folks go about this? Thank you.
Not sure if you can expose it to the public internet or if you have to also deploy your app on heroku though.