As a computer science educator, I use Render to teach students cloud deployment workflows. A major limitation is that the Hobby (free) workspace allows only one member, which prevents students from collaborating on shared services, deployments, and logs.

In modern CS curricula, group projects involving cloud services are standard. Students need to practice working together on the same deployed services, monitoring logs, and managing deployments as a team. The current 30-day free tier for databases is also too short for the longer and larger projects needed to properly train students for software engineering jobs.

I’d like to request either:

Allowing multiple members on Hobby workspaces for educational use, or

Introducing a low-cost, preferably free, academic workspace plan that supports team collaboration.

In addition, the academic plan should include free collaborative access to database services for at least 3 months to support the ever more popular larger and longer cloud projects that are needed to better train students in real life development scenarios.

This would make Render much more suitable for classroom teaching and help position it as a go-to platform for cloud education.