Vercel: the Anti-Vendor-Lock-in Cloud

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Vercel claims to be an anti-vendor-lock-in cloud, but HN commenters express skepticism, citing NextJS's tight integration with Vercel's infrastructure and alleged tactics to keep users on their services.

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verdverm

about 2 months ago

right... that's why NextJS is designed to align with Vercel's infra and makes using it elsewhere a pain (see what used to be called "middleware" but had to be renamed because so many people called out this issue, and instead of designing NextJS to be amenable to running anywhere, they just doubled down)

Use TanStack instead of NextJS and Vercel

sharts

about 2 months ago

total bs. having worked with their infra they certainly employ tactics to keep you on their services

lioeters

about 2 months ago

They're not fooling anyone, their work speaks for itself. So do the CEO's actions.

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