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by TobyTheDog123 1138 days ago
This is a bit of a copy/paste from a comment I made in another thread like three weeks ago[1]:

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I'm very much starting to distrust these huge companies with infinite product/feature lists and generic marketing-lingo websites.

"Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration."

Seriously?

I want serverless providers that tell me the 4-5 products they offer (Compute, maybe a KV store, maybe a database, maybe some pubsub, maybe a queue?), give me the pricing, and leave me the Hell alone.

I don't want to feel locked into a system promising end-to-end whatever, ones that heavily push a certain framework, and most importantly ones that look like the homepage was designed by a team of sales people instead of a team of engineers.

It's the difference between the Cloudflare Workers website and the Vercel website: Vercel looks like the new-age big-brother con artist, while Workers looks like a utility.

Sorry, what were we talking about? A runaway bill?

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This kind of stuff is exactly why I don't trust Vercel. They're selling some """experience""" on top of utilities. This works for Apple in the non-technical space, but for developer tools? Absolutely no chance.

I wasn't going to use Vercel before, but I'm certainly not going to now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508910

1 comments

hah. that was exactly my impression too. years ago, they showed a command like "next up" or something and boom your app is deployed. never used it. didn't even look into it, just assumed it would cost an arm and a leg because there's no way they wouldn't add a bunch of markup ontop of a basic vps