Vercel raise $40M Series B

Post by mbesto » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

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This is basically called the Ladder of Abstraction: https://www.toolshero.com/communication-skills/ladder-of-abs... YOU aren't the audience for this press release because the people they are trying to attract are more interested in abstract concepts than concrete ones. E.g. "I'm a great visionary CTO of a 100 person dev team and I use Vercel". A developer doesn't care that Vercel raised $40M, all they want to know is…

I like this idea, thanks for the link. Just noting that it's funny for an article about effective communication to have a prominent typo in its key graphic ('concreet')

Post by Grustaf » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

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No offense, I think people are crazy to rely on a stack they can easily make themselves vs. a series B startup. It's not that difficult to build and deploy full stack apps on your own server.

how many times do we need to link to the dropbox comment before HN commenters get it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Post by paxys » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

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Serverless web apps. Using their own Next.js as an example: everything in /pages/ is client app, everything in /api/ is serverless app. Client talks to the /api/ endpoints, /api/ endpoints talk to your domain services. Vercel also provide edge-location hosting and caching.

The term "serverless", to me, makes as much sense as "No Software" (Salesforce) did back then: none. I do get the point of "you're not managing any actual servers", but still.

Post by NationalPark » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

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For a developer audience, yes. For a non technical audience, no.

This assumption that any developer might automatically navigate to documentation page sounds silly. This is not true. Developers glance the page like normal people do and the OP's concerns are not wrong.

Post by leerob » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

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kylehotchkiss wrote: post #21

Many congrats Vercel! I've been a big fan since Zeit platform version 1 - I remember the transition to platform version 2 was difficult but over time I can see how incredible of a platform you've become. Just a note from a fan - I hope you all can determine a way to approach the future with longevity and corporate independence. The web really needs your entire teams dedication towards performance, end user experience…

It wasn't a "transition". They straight up killed features that would never work on 2, that worked on 1. For example, websockets. Turns out you can't do those in their ephemeral lambda model.