Vercel raise $40M Series B
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Vercel raise $40M Series B
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Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#2Poor Gatsby.
We run a Gatsby site, it was great to setup fast fast fast and has been a pain in the butt ever since.
Next, from our limited experimentation, has much better ergonomics and it looks like the company has a stronger grasp on go to market.
Crazy how fast that happened
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#3Vercel communications team: I watched your quasi-live streaming presentation/announcement several weeks ago, and could barely fathom what anyone was talking about.
Was it your intention to completely talk over everyone's head by using arcane or invented abstractions? Trying to make investors feel they are onto something really advanced?
Or just caught up in VC/SV speak? Because products that nobody understands have a harder time taking root in the commons.
Edit: Literally there is a question above (top at this time) 'What is Vercel?' - this is my point, a communications failure. If people Googling 'Vercel' and not getting the answer very quickly, then it's a communications problem.
Speak in plain English, describe 'what it is' and the direct material value.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#4Poor Gatsby. We run a Gatsby site, it was great to setup fast fast fast and has been a pain in the butt ever since. Next, from our limited experimentation, has much better ergonomics and it looks like the company has a stronger grasp on go to market. Crazy how fast that happened
Vercel also supports Gatsby deployments. Well, they have an option when setting up the repo integration at least.
My team has just started a Next.js app. I chose Next.js over Gatsby because on the face of it, Gatsby looked like a lot more configuration. I fully expect we'll "disagree" with Next.js at some point but for now I am really liking that it is opinionated, as it it letting us build really quickly.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#5Poor Gatsby. We run a Gatsby site, it was great to setup fast fast fast and has been a pain in the butt ever since. Next, from our limited experimentation, has much better ergonomics and it looks like the company has a stronger grasp on go to market. Crazy how fast that happened
Can relate, next.js is more progressive while Gatsby get things done so quick at first, but you find yourself in a dark room of settings, let along GraphQL.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#6Vercel communications team: I watched your quasi-live streaming presentation/announcement several weeks ago, and could barely fathom what anyone was talking about. Was it your intention to completely talk over everyone's head by using arcane or invented abstractions? Trying to make investors feel they are onto something really advanced? Or just caught up in VC/SV speak? Because products that nobody understands have a…
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Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#7Vercel communications team: I watched your quasi-live streaming presentation/announcement several weeks ago, and could barely fathom what anyone was talking about. Was it your intention to completely talk over everyone's head by using arcane or invented abstractions? Trying to make investors feel they are onto something really advanced? Or just caught up in VC/SV speak? Because products that nobody understands have a…
I think you need a Snickers.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#8Congrats! I've been using vercel for a month now and it's just so nice and easy to use; without sacrificing performance/flexibility. I hope they don't lose the ease of use as they get bigger, like so many other similar products
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#9Hi, serious question what is Vercel? As a developer, what do I use it for? Back-end as a service? Hosting? Database? from reading their homepage several times and looking at their products I still cant tell... can some explain?
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#10Vercel communications team: I watched your quasi-live streaming presentation/announcement several weeks ago, and could barely fathom what anyone was talking about. Was it your intention to completely talk over everyone's head by using arcane or invented abstractions? Trying to make investors feel they are onto something really advanced? Or just caught up in VC/SV speak? Because products that nobody understands have a…
I think you need a Snickers.
Vercel CEO needs to speak in plain English, it would help his effort quite a lot.