Vercel

“many folks will get started there instead of having to deal with giving a credit card”

“Vercel has a big advantage, they are preferred partners from many SaaS vendors, and have hobby accounts without credit card requirements.”

“allows me to use dispatch building on Vercel, so I can check it out from wherever, without too much pain”

“vercel is a good home for foss projects, at worst they'll make first class adoption on their ecosystem”

“DX is simple, integrations between the two, and the stack is well understood by the LLM.”

“going from a webapp fully hosted on an EC2 instance to a railway and vercel setup reduced my costs 10x”

“all others are worse than Vercel, in tooling, and supported languages for serverless on the backend”

“Vercel pricing is intentionally opaque and you are likely experience a massive bill, your site being taken offline, or both.”

“high damage actions were authorized by authentication delegated to Google and furthermore not subject to hard token 2FA”

“could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota”

“Environment variables were stored on their end in plain text, unless they were specifically marked as sensitive, which was opt-in only.”

“given their apparent lack of effective security boundaries in one area, why should we assume that they've got the deploy system adequately locked down?”

“It's pretty telling that they had to hire an "incident response provider" to figure out what happened and clean up after the hack.”

“Using a vertically-integrated hosting company like Vercel is very likely their best and most secure option”

“Given their standards for framework security, it's not hard to believe their business' control plane is just as insecure”

“There is no serious reason to use Vercel, other than for those being locked into the NextJs ecosystem and demo projects.”

“If hosting a website on their platform is easy to do, wouldn't it support that they know what they are doing?”

“I'm a vercel customer, and I like using vercel AI SDK and Chat SDK. But I found myself moving away from vercel and next.js whenever I start a new project.”

“But the Vercel brand has fallen so far that we're also moving away from any open source projects they have had any part in creating”

“The breach of trust here, which is hard to imagine isn't intentional, is enough reason alone to stop using Vercel”

“Just makes it seem gross to use his stuff, which is a shame because it's a good product.”

“NextJS doesn't require Vercel, but it certainly does not work as well without them.”

“Vercel is just easy to deloy and this was a fun project that I did in a few minutes.”

“For a full Node.js runtime, Vercel's free tier is still a good option (if you don't need observability)”

“it's easier to just stick the thing in Vercel than having to deal with the complexity of Kubernetes”

“Thanks to Vercel partnerships, many of those SaaS vendors only support Next.js as extension/integration technology on their SDKs.”

“unless Vercel is truly distasteful as a vendor, and then people can leave with less effort than before”

“the ease of deployment for a high-traffic forum focused on USD arbitrage and remote jobs”

“They have all the minnows eating for free, and then once you pass a threshold, you're a whale with a whale–sized bill.”

“Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load.”

“A couple of months ago my CEO came to me with a $30k Vercel app I could have done for $1500 on our own hardware.”

“Vercel as a platform has been silently giving open source projects a "fuck you, pay me" when it comes to renewing benefits.”

“vercel goes a step further, and (when configured this way) allocates a new hostname for new branches, to make testing even easier.”

“great for startups, orgs with minimal talent, and those with deep pockets for inevitable overruns”

“I appreciate them having these services to let us showcase our personal projects for free”

“any PAYG product requires very explicit discipline to avoid getting smacked with a shady bill”

“i was just refering to its dx and couldn't find any other better alternative for web deployments”

“For small companies things like vercel, supabase, firebase, ... wipe the floor with Amazon RDS.”

“Allowing untrusted code from your customers to be executed in a shared environment with no isolation is like, extremely amateurish.”

“You can use vercel to get out from under this, but that only works for small companies' "I need a small website" needs.”