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Vercel – $102M to Continue Building the Next Web, Together

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Re: Vercel – $102M to Continue Building the Next Web, Together

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Post by jollybean »

leerob wrote: post #10
jollybean wrote: post #8

Dear Vercel: Please describe 'what the it is' on the first page of your website. 1st line: "Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work." 2cnd: "Developers love Next.js, the open source React framework Vercel built together with Google and Facebook. Next.js powers the biggest websites like Twilio, for use case…

Thanks for the feedback. "Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work" -> Our platform includes frameworks (e.g. Next.js), deployment and hosting (e.g. serverless infrastructure), and collaboration (preview deployments, nextjs.org/live). The first section of the docs ( https://vercel.com/docs ) says: "Vercel enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly and scale automatical…

In the context of 'a person arriving knows nothing about Vercel' ... 'hosting websites' can mean a lot of things.

Are you hosting static files? Like AWS S3? It's a giant file server? With some fancy framework specific aspects?

Or is this like 'Wix', but using a specific framework?

Servers? Lambdas? Where is the business logic?

Is there storage, like RDMBS or or a document/noSQL DB?

Maybe it's fair to assume a lot of people are familiar with Next.JS ... but I suggest most are not. 'Next.JS is a React front-end Framework' is helpful, but most of us already know React itself is a framework, so a 'framework on a framework' probably needs a few more words as well.

So even a few well placed, even pedantic descriptions might help a lot, especially for those who arrive 'completely naive' i.e. have maybe 'heard of' Vercel, but that's it.

Re: Vercel – $102M to Continue Building the Next Web, Together

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Post by leerob »

jollybean wrote: post #11
leerob wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. "Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work" -> Our platform includes frameworks (e.g. Next.js), deployment and hosting (e.g. serverless infrastructure), and collaboration (preview deployments, nextjs.org/live). The first section of the docs ( https://vercel.com/docs ) says: "Vercel enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly and scale automatical…

In the context of 'a person arriving knows nothing about Vercel' ... 'hosting websites' can mean a lot of things. Are you hosting static files? Like AWS S3? It's a giant file server? With some fancy framework specific aspects? Or is this like 'Wix', but using a specific framework? Servers? Lambdas? Where is the business logic? Is there storage, like RDMBS or or a document/noSQL DB? Maybe it's fair to assume a lot of…

Thank you for this! Very helpful. I will work on improving this.

Re: Vercel – $102M to Continue Building the Next Web, Together

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Post by darepublic »

Might get downvoted for this but I'm not happy with how nextjs keeps expanding its scope. I don't want my server side react lib to do have anything to do with my deploy set up. Same with how nextjs now wants to meddle with my rest API. So while I use nextjs for some things I am having to opt out of more and more pieces of it.

Re: Vercel – $102M to Continue Building the Next Web, Together

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Post by leerob »

darepublic wrote: post #18

Might get downvoted for this but I'm not happy with how nextjs keeps expanding its scope. I don't want my server side react lib to do have anything to do with my deploy set up. Same with how nextjs now wants to meddle with my rest API. So while I use nextjs for some things I am having to opt out of more and more pieces of it.

"I don't want my server side react lib to do have anything to do with my deploy set up." You can deploy Next.js anywhere that has a Node.js server. It's not dependent on any deployment set up.

"Same with how nextjs now wants to meddle with my rest API." -> You also don't have to use API Routes! It's completely opt-in.

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