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Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especi

Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especially given how few people are working on this full time -- it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane: he's constantly pushing updates, reviewing PRs, and finds time to be very active on the support channel. We use a bunch of Zeit's tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com https://www.common.com -- we're hiring!), and they're consistently such good and reliable products (doesn't hurt that they have a sharp focus on developer experience). Congrats to Tim and to the entire Zeit team!

subpixel 8y ago
> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane when looking at tools to build a business on, that can be a liability no?
- ldthorne 8y ago
  Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It's definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it's more that there's a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.
  - timneutkens 8y ago
    As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).
spikefromspace 8y ago
Completely agree! I have used next.js in multiple projects now and have gotten very fast turnaround on any submitted issues. Love the product and the team!
bg0 8y ago
> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane Insane is an understatement. The dude has helped me on the support channel more times than I can count. Forever grateful. Not to mention pkg is pretty awesome too from Zeit
anonytrary 8y ago
Curious why you didn't mention Arunoda -- does he not work on it anymore. IIRC Arunoda started Next.js right after (perhaps because of) leaving Meteor ecosystem.
- kabes 8y ago
  I don't think he created it, but he was there early on and works for Zeit. Still eternal grateful for him creating kadira.
  - anonytrary 8y ago
    Wow, TIL. Also a very nice display of Cunningham's law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
    - timneutkens 8y ago
      I'm going to post the same answer I gave in another thread on the initial post: As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).

subpixel 8y ago

> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane when looking at tools to build a business on, that can be a liability no?

ldthorne 8y ago
Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It's definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it's more that there's a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.
- timneutkens 8y ago
  As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).

spikefromspace 8y ago

Completely agree! I have used next.js in multiple projects now and have gotten very fast turnaround on any submitted issues. Love the product and the team!

bg0 8y ago

> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane Insane is an understatement. The dude has helped me on the support channel more times than I can count. Forever grateful. Not to mention pkg is pretty awesome too from Zeit

anonytrary 8y ago

Curious why you didn't mention Arunoda -- does he not work on it anymore. IIRC Arunoda started Next.js right after (perhaps because of) leaving Meteor ecosystem.

kabes 8y ago
I don't think he created it, but he was there early on and works for Zeit. Still eternal grateful for him creating kadira.
- anonytrary 8y ago
  Wow, TIL. Also a very nice display of Cunningham's law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
  - timneutkens 8y ago
    I'm going to post the same answer I gave in another thread on the initial post: As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).