[jama211]

Yeah I can’t find a reason why but I’m put off and uneasy reading all this for some reason . Also the detail in this “how we built the app” article is basically… too detailed? Like a new developer who comments every line of logic in their code. Perhaps it was also generated with AI with a prompt that was looking at the codebase?

I wish them all the best but perhaps this just isn’t for me.

[MaxLeiter]

A lot of react native apps do not feel native. Even more are just low quality. Many v0 users were asking us how exactly we did X or Y to make it feel so good, which is what this post is for.

[tennex]

I like it. This post is the perfect level of detail for people obsessed about UX minutiae.

Personally, I'm not a huge Vercel fan (IMO: lots of hype, business model encourages developer ecosystem lock-in), but this post gave me more trust in the design/UX care that goes into their products (which is a core Vercel strength).

[MaxLeiter]

I am obviously bias as a Vercel employee, but I think we actually do a lot to avoid locking our users in. You can read more about our approach here: https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-the-anti-vendor-lock-in-cloud

If that doesn't alleviate your concerns or you disagree, I'd love to hear your thoughts about how we can improve

[tacker2000]

Are you serious? Your whole business model is built on locking in users and then selling them expensive hosting.

[MaxLeiter]

If you can point out how we actually lock you in, that would be more constructive than blanket accusations. I recommend reading the linked post

[9dev]

You accumulate web frameworks and maintainers similar to the winning strategy at Monopoly, until you have implicit control over entire ecosystems. Whether you actually seize that control or not doesn’t even matter, because you are in a position to do so—by strategic neglect, or increased attention to whatever project supports your current business goals best.

No single entity should have that much power, especially no venture-capital backed one.

[tacker2000]

No sorry, I'm not going to read your PR fluff.

You might want to look at the comments in this thread [1], to get a feeling of the "accusations", as you want to call it... I'm not "accusing" anything, I really couldn't care less, I don't use Vercel/Next.js and never will, but maybe you should read the linked thread, too see how people (at least on HN) see your company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099922

[davidsainez]

I find the existence of opennext convincing proof of lock-in: https://blog.logrocket.com/opennext-next-js-portability/

Personally, I don’t bother with nextjs at all.

[satvikpendem]

Looks good, I appreciate the level of detail especially as bad UX can cause churn on mobile. Since it's React Native, are there plans for an Android version? I guess you guys wanted to get an iOS version out first instead of releasing both in parallel, for bug testing, improvements etc?

[fernandorojo]

Overall, our focus right now is iOS, but we want to do Android at some point. Even though we used React Native, we also wrote a good amount of native Swift code under the hood to power native modules.

[jama211]

Ok, well good luck