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by yurishimo 103 days ago
You say that, but isn't Vercel also a Void(0) investor in a roundabout way?

The big news regarding Void Cloud is that it all seems to be built on Cloudflare workers. The landing page is very light on info atm too. [0]

I am super excited that they are MIT open sourcing Vite+ however. In that realm, they are obviously targeting Bun as their main competition. Unfortunately for Bun, if they are forced to help Anthropic more than they can focus on OSS, they might lose their current (perceived?) advantage.

0: https://void.cloud/

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Doesn't seem like it — see VoidZero investors [0].

> Unfortunately for Bun, if they are forced to help Anthropic more than they can focus on OSS

Curious: is that speculation, or based on observation?

[0]: https://voidzero.dev/about

Im pretty sure Accel is also heavily invested Vercel.

Regarding the Bun comment, that is speculation on my part. I have no real horse in the race but Anthropic didn’t buy them for lols.

Indeed Accel is a long-term Vercel investor [0].

Not sure whether VoidZero and Vercel sharing the same investor has any sorts of implication.

[0]: https://vercel.com/blog/series-f

Well, your original comment was about a war brewing between Vervel and Void0. If Accel has a stake in both, I don’t know that they really care. See the Laravel investment as well.

Accel sees the money in vendor lock-in and is so far willing to let these companies fund their open source endeavors and sell hosting as a means to an end. Im not sure we’ve seen the real end game here yet but with geopolitics raising the cost of energy a ton this year, perhaps some screws are going to begin being tightened as margins are reduced. At present, I think its too early to tell.