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Harry
@htormey
More stuff I’ll say on farcaster but not on X: I think theirs a big backlash against Vercel/NextJS brewing. Seeing the team focus on their AI product while NextJS gets more and more janky (upgrade to 15, etc) and predatory (lock in features) is disturbing. I don’t think their business model is working out.
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Harry
@htormey
It’s amazing how many JavaScript ecosystem influencers shill their product and gloss over how janky it is. My nightmare is waking up and finding out they are doing a MongoDB style licensing rug pull. Hence my interest in alternatives.
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W1NTΞR
@w1nt3r
Sorry to be piling up on your every post about NextJS, but I have been in the same mind space for a while. We actually moved /basepaint from vercel to railway for this reason. I think their business model is genius and is working out great. Whenever it's working out to the bar of VC expectations, we'll see, but giving devs sexy-looking smooth and free DX to hook them up and then charging arm and leg for unrelated things (like traffic or sending logs out!) is as profitable as it gets. The terabytes of education content and all LLMs being trained on NextJS just deepens the moat. I do feel back about the JS ecosystem though. We painted ourselves in the corner here. There are generations of "senior devs" that never touched a server and never built a UI without React.
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Joe Blau 🎩
@joeblau
Use Clouldflare Pages. Skip the Vercel markup.
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
I think the plan is to automate front end devs out of a job so they just need to do that before js devs get angry enough to move to another trend. Also young devs I’ve interviewed do not know how to deploy without vercel :(
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Phil Cockfield
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Business strategy: entrapment through "DX"
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