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There’s a lot of magic with Vercel, but I think the true “wedge” was clear to many people: DX. The trick was really the execution, which they nailed. They reali

There’s a lot of magic with Vercel, but I think the true “wedge” was clear to many people: DX. The trick was really the execution, which they nailed. They realized early that there was a whole class of developers out there, many of them quite talented, who couldn’t stand SSH’ing into Linux boxes, configuring htaccess files, installing SSL certificates, etc. Many of these developers also worked at big companies, and held sway. They distilled the entire deployment process into a few clicks and boom, you have a real, functioning, fast website. Then they added templates, good marketing, and doubled down on React. The rest is history. It’s a well executed vision and I give them a lot of props for that.

youngtaff 3y ago
What just like Netlify who did it a few years earlier?
- no_wizard 3y ago
  They fell over by not having a Next.js type solution and could have spent more time on DevRel. Their pricing structure change didn’t help either If there was a Netlify framework that leveraged up the platform that got you started quick I bet they would have more mindshare
antod 3y ago
I kinda feel there was quite a time and tech stack gap between sshing into a server to edit .htaccess files and Vercel. I wouldn't think that live .htaccess file editing was what they were disrupting :)
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