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Can someone explain what Vercel does. I'm familiar with Svelte, but interestingly not with Vercel. A scan of their website wasn't completely clear, but that is
by yumraj 5y ago
Can someone explain what Vercel does.
I'm familiar with Svelte, but interestingly not with Vercel. A scan of their website wasn't completely clear, but that is probably just me.
Edit: thanks to all who answered, very helpful.
- ryanSrich 5y agoUsed to be called Now. It’s a PaaS.
- inglor 5y agoThey are a competitor with other clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean with a focus on JAMStack and modern workflows.
- dbbk 5y agoMore like a competitor to Netlify, GitHub Pages, etc
- _fat_santa 5y agoVercel is a hosting provider for static websites. I see it as a simplified versions of AWS, specifically for static websites.
- leerob 5y agoHey! I'm Lee, Head of DevRel at Vercel :) Happy to answer any questions you have. Vercel is a frontend cloud platform that integrates with any framework you prefer (or just plain HTML!). We are also the creators of Next.js, which is a React framework. We try to make it as easy as possible for you to write some code and put it on the web, globally.
- ronvoluted 5y agoHey Lee, just listened to your chat with swyx the other day. It was great hearing how Vercel positions itself and your thoughts on devrel! I know Vercel has a great developer relations team already— what would the appetite be for more Svelte DevRels in future? I've been working as a developer advocate and love Svelte enough to have even given talks on it. Would be an opportunity I could see myself in for years :)
- leerob 5y agoWe'll likely be hiring more DevRel folks focused on Svelte in the future! We have one currently (Steph) and she's great :)
- ronvoluted 5y agoThat's awesome and yeah Steph sounded great from your podcast chat! Thanks Lee :)