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Vercel never stops impressing me. They're shipping huge new features consistently every 3-6 months. The quality of their product (we're a user) is generally very high. Seemingly every startup I know (other than those creating core web tech) are using Vercel. Definitely a company to admire imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare or someone wanted to acquire them soon if they successfully pull off cross-language support. Heroku really fumbled the ball here, despite having a multi-year headstart.

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Apparently they also built a bot (using Vercel functions) to track comments on HN re: Vercel, and yours got featured by the founder:

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1550539397241548800

Will be open-sourcing this soon! Let me know if you're interested (lee at vercel.com).

Not that it wasn't possible before, but quick-deploy Slack bot opens the gates for spam upvoting/downvoting either from the employees or serves as an easy tool for marketers to spam replies about specific topics.

I think open-sourcing it wouldn't be beneficial. More work for @dang to moderate the content and feedback to remain organic.

HN already detects voting rings and responds with lower weights for the votes from the ring.

Good luck detecting that

They're also ridiculously good at hiring. So many of the top JS people are at Vercel.

> I wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare or someone wanted to acquire them soon if they successfully pull off cross-language support.

I've also contemplated a Cloudflare acquisition or merger with Vercel several times. Some of their products compete with each other, but I think they target very different customers.

But maybe this is shifting as Vercel moves towards the back of the stack and Cloudflare moves towards the front.

How is Vercel different from something like DigitalOcean's App Platform?

I haven't tried Vercel, but with App Platform it seems like I get everything Vercel offers, but on top of that I can add managed databases, spaces, functions, and have overall more flexibility.

Vercel seems geared towards a specific stack / paradigm as far as I can tell while DO is more big cloud lite. i.e. build blocks like objective storage etc

I just wish there was a more affordable option. 20$ a month is steep for one repo is steep.

You can get pretty far on the free tier. But $20 a month for a superior dev experience is worth it imo.

Unless you want to password protect preview links. That’ll cost you an extra $150/month

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