Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'

Post by forsakenharmony » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

ramoz wrote: post #117

prodigycorp wrote: post #14

What would this have costed had they used render or railway? Maybe, what, $200 a month? Vercel's pricing is so ridiculously convoluted that you can't even cleanly compare usage. With render/railway/(insert provider of choice) you can at least predict that you're your biggest cost is going to be egress. edit: I just saw that it gets 450m pageviews. I'm guessing on the upper end this costs ~$1k with railway + cloudflar…

Why not bare-cloud? Esp with AI... in 10min or less an agent can deploy almost any stack to an optimal AWS setup for a fraction of the cost of any platform.

Post by nailer » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

guywithahat wrote: post #96

mhitza wrote: post #2

Unreadable without an instagram/threads account

It's also dumb because the original interaction happened on X https://x.com/rauchg/status/2020984434338693622 Say what you want about Elon but X is where all the investors and tech execs are. Nobody is going to sign up for threads because they saw it link to a picture in a HN post

Post by swyx » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

Vicinity9635 wrote: post #102

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Post by array_key_first » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

iOSThrowAway wrote: post #33

Nextgrid wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t it just serving static content and the content fitting in RAM? If so your laptop can serve it just fine even.

A laptop would have a hard time serve thousands of people hitting a single endpoint multiple times a day.

Post by asim » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #126

asim wrote: post #113

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not vouching either way, but he already responded to this and so people should decide for themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6qY-fEAjA