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NextJS is awesome, but vercel as a business still doesn't seem to make sense to me. There is a free tier and then pricing starts at $20/user/month. For unlimit
by laczi 6y ago
NextJS is awesome, but vercel as a business still doesn't seem to make sense to me.
There is a free tier and then pricing starts at $20/user/month. For unlimited usage in deploying and consuming static/generated/rendered content and APIs.
iiuc, vercel runs on aws. Isn't the math fundamentally flawed on this kind of a business model if it isn't backed by owning the compute/network substrate first? Egress charges would be brutal. Targetting gross margins of 60-70% sounds like it would be hard.
Would love to hear from VC/founders with their insights, esp for building dev tools businesses and "monetizing" frameworks which isn't something that's happened too often (or happened at all recently?)
- duhi88 6y agoI feels like Heroku 8 years ago. Cheap to get started, but I never recommended it for startups with a tight budget. You can get stuck with an architecture that becomes very expensive very quickly, and that scares me.
- jeffshek 6y agoIt's a common startup strategy to have free plans that lock in initial customers and then raise prices later and/or remove the free plans. At that point, you're using customer growth as your primary metric to investors and thus raising money.
- nfRfqX5n 6y agoenterprise support