Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

Post by DagAgren » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:31 AM UTC

RonanTheGrey wrote: post #144

DagAgren wrote: post #65

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Everything I liked about Zeit was Now v1, so, not really?

It took me awhile to come to terms with the truth that "You are not their target customer." Fair enough. Except that they built their brand off the backs of people they no longer want using their platform...

Post by travltalk » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

RonanTheGrey wrote: post #137

sholladay wrote: post #50

I gave up on Zeit when Now v2 came out because, besides it being more complex and a pain to migrate to, they went back on their promises about no vendor lock-in. Up until late 2018, their site had a very different philosophy that they abruptly abandoned. [1] [2] Fool me once... 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107092845/https://zeit.co/n... 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107092845/https://zeit.co/n...

I was an early adopter of Now v1 and loved it. I evangelized it to all my clients, used it on every project - it was such a breath of fresh air that deploying a server was now so easy. Ok, I get that serverless is a different paradigm. And I understand the arguments for it. But I refused to use Now v2 precisely because they violated their promises they had made -- but worse, turned it into "just another AWS". If I wa…

Post by noxplode » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

bionhoward wrote: post #150

I liked Zeit but had to switch because there was no way to get IP addresses to whitelist, so Vercel customers are likely to get hacked, because they’re forced to secure their database with only a password, and no firewall. Apparently you can fix this with an “enterprise” subscription, which is a huge red flag. Open source doesn’t get secure data? Vercel is likely to get hit with huge lawsuits over that, and I’m stayi…

Post by tirumaraiselvan » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

james-mcelwain wrote: post #167

"Jamstack" has to be the worst name for an architecture ever. "Javascript", "APIs", and "markup"... uhhh you mean like what the entire web already runs on?

Post by inapis » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 10:50 AM UTC

baxuz wrote: post #93

zoul wrote: post #81

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For me as a noob with very simple requirements, it’s very refreshing not having to care where and how my server code runs. Just add to a repo, push and forget. And if my code is written against some simple HTTP request interface, there shouldn’t be much trouble to move it elsewhere.

I've recently had a simple requirement. To build a site with content gated behind a paywall. There's no way to have SSR'd gated content without paying a gazillion bucks to either netlify or next for role-based redirects. Even if I would go for CSR'd content for the gated part, I'd have to fiddle with JWT tokens. To handle users, I'd have to use a 3rd party service such as oauth, since zeit doesn't support users, and…