It's ironic that the blog of next.js creators is not opening when cookies/localStorage are disabled. For two years I have whitelisted sites in the main browser and have a separate browser where everything is enabled but cleaned on close, so that I could read broken websites. I hope "the next web" they are building just works in a single browser without cookies/tracking at least for blogs/news.
Vercel raise $40M Series B
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Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#52Many 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…
> avoid being acquired Don't think that's possible after raising such amounts of money. Their way out is now either getting aquired for loads of cash or going public. Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company. Those investors will want to see their money back some time in the future.
> Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company.
not a very intellectually honest statement to make considering founder supervoting shares are extremely common in tech.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#53Had to use Zeit/Vercel a few months for a “serious” project that requires SSR, caching and multiple staging environments. As the project progresses I noticed an increasing pain from constantly fighting with outdated documentations and limited configurability. I hope that’s changed now though, because there were some parts of Zeit that we loved. For simpler static sites, it’s hard to beat Netlify.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#54Glad to see this because we just started using Vercel for StatusGator. Their API is great: we were able to automate deployments of branded status dashboards very quickly. There are some rough edges around domain name management but overall the experience is very developer-friendly, analogous to Heroku but for a different architecture.
> but overall the experience is very developer-friendly, analogous to Heroku but for a different architecture.
Just to elaborate on that, Vercel is awesome for stateless apps - specially front-end apps. Heroku excels on (small scale) statefull apps - like the back-end app connected to a database (add-on).
In my previous company we used both Vercel and Heroku, which was a great match. Both of them have Review Apps, for example.
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#55No 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
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> avoid being acquired Don't think that's possible after raising such amounts of money. Their way out is now either getting aquired for loads of cash or going public. Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company. Those investors will want to see their money back some time in the future.
> Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company. not a very intellectually honest statement to make considering founder supervoting shares are extremely common in tech.
extremely common, common, or merely not that unusual?
I don’t actually know, but I was struck by the hyperbole in a comment essentially complaining about hyperbole.
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#57u/rauchg grew zeit.co (Now) [0][1] -> next.js [2] -> Vercel [3] iteratively over 3 years to raise Series A and B within 8 months of each other.
Along the way, showing how OSS businesses can win: Slowly but steadily (looking at you mesosphere).
Congrats to everyone at Vercel! God knows it has taken very many pivots to finally reach here.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320489
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407503
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#58> Airbnb’s engineering team, for example, isn’t a heavy user of Next.js yet, but they are a world-class team of designers, engineers, product managers, and marketers. This is a semantically null sentence for the purposes of your article. Skip it and you'd have the same meaning without sounding like you're sucking up to a company. > Hashicorp pushed back on the dogmatism of pure static. Their team is laser-focused on…
it makes sense to people like me who have been following the vercel story closely, but youre right in that this press release probably should have been written with a much more contextless audience in mind.
re: hashicorp - jeff escalante their web team lead gave a talk on their move recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlNP3PSLT2Q
Re: Vercel raise $40M Series B
#59Oh god. Even companies raising $40,000,000 can’t explain what they do:
“Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work.”
Nice, inspiring evocative words, but I care to find what the fuck Vercel IS, and this is not an answer.
Maybe if I reword the above it will become clear:
Vercel lets developers have a really great time concentrating super hard looking super close at how fast things are. The thing we do lets you do the best thing you do.
Ah, now it’s crystal clear what Vercel is.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> avoid being acquired Don't think that's possible after raising such amounts of money. Their way out is now either getting aquired for loads of cash or going public. Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company. Those investors will want to see their money back some time in the future.
> Going public also means loosing parts or all of your control over the company. not a very intellectually honest statement to make considering founder supervoting shares are extremely common in tech.
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