+APP_COLLECTSTATIC

app.json

@@ -42,7 +42,12 @@
       "value": "True"
     },
     "DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC": {
-      "description": "Controls if Heroku should collect any static files. Set it to 1 if you keep static in repo.",
+      "description": "Controls if Heroku should collect any static files. This won't work with example_project.",
+      "value": 1
+    },
+    "APP_COLLECTSTATIC": {
+      "description": "Make example project collect statics on it'sown.",
+      "value": 1,
       "required": false
     },
     "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE": {

bin/post_deploy

@@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ if [[ -n "$CREATE_SUPER_USER" ]]; then
     printf "from django.contrib.auth.models import User\nif not User.objects.exists(): User.objects.create_superuser(*'$CREATE_SUPER_USER'.split(':'))" | python /app/example_project/manage.py shell
 fi
 
+if [[ -n "$APP_COLLECTSTATIC" ]]; then
+    echo "==> Collecting static"
+    cd /app/example_project/src
+    python /app/example_project/manage.py collectstatic
+fi
+