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Good for them! I am surprised Amazon hadn’t purchase them by now. I really think Netlify can do something incredible if they can offer an e-commerce solution (

by lvl100 5y ago

Good for them! I am surprised Amazon hadn’t purchase them by now. I really think Netlify can do something incredible if they can offer an e-commerce solution (Stripe/Square/EasyPost/Shippo) that can compete with Shopify. And probably why Vercel is moving in this direction.

buro9 5y ago
Or Cloudflare
BossingAround 5y ago
Big cloud providers (and esp. Amazon) can likely build a better service within ±6 months if they wanted to, so I don't think it makes much sense for Amazon/Google/Microsoft to buy Netlify. As a side note, Github already does a more than competent Netlify competitor for static webpages.
- biggestlou 5y ago
  Calling GitHub a competitor for static sites seems like a real stretch
- gk1 5y ago
  And how long will it take them to acquire 1M+ users? Sometimes “building” isn’t the hardest part.
  - cblconfederate 5y ago
    Been waiting for years for startups to start paying users to join
- lvl100 5y ago
  To be fair, any of the big tech monopolies can replicate anything out in the marketplace today for less than $100M.
- sergiotapia 5y ago
  bullshit - AWS has existed for years and their UI is atrocious. Netlify's UI meanwhile is delightful to use and predictable. You can get something up and running in no time flat, even without Netlify experience.
- ascorbic 5y ago
  Have you tried using Amplify?
- neom 5y ago
  How's AWS lightsail working out as a DO competitor?
BartBoch 5y ago
This can go really close to antitrust laws - I am not sure if the risk is worth it.
- lvl100 5y ago
  As far as I am concerned, the US is not going to go after tech monopolies outside of maybe Facebook. They are quite literally taking over the world and that’s bringing a lot of money and benefits to US interests. The US is a commerce first country. They will never stand in the way.
  - handrous 5y ago
    If we were doing things right and wanted to really benefit from having these giants around, we'd go 1950s-Japan on them and harness them to drive a broader prosperity-increasing economic engine, while still letting them thrive and grow huge, while guiding them to advance broader economic-strategic goals. Having them around and so globally dominant is a huge opportunity, and one that won't last forever. But I doubt we'll use it like we could before that time's over.
- gk1 5y ago
  How? There’s Vercel and Cloudflare to compete against.
  - dymk 5y ago
    It’s not about being a monopoly, it’s leveraging their power in other markets to have an advantage in this market.

by lvl100 5y ago

buro9 5y ago

Or Cloudflare

BossingAround 5y ago

Big cloud providers (and esp. Amazon) can likely build a better service within ±6 months if they wanted to, so I don't think it makes much sense for Amazon/Google/Microsoft to buy Netlify. As a side note, Github already does a more than competent Netlify competitor for static webpages.

biggestlou 5y ago
Calling GitHub a competitor for static sites seems like a real stretch
gk1 5y ago
And how long will it take them to acquire 1M+ users? Sometimes “building” isn’t the hardest part.
- cblconfederate 5y ago
  Been waiting for years for startups to start paying users to join
lvl100 5y ago
To be fair, any of the big tech monopolies can replicate anything out in the marketplace today for less than $100M.
sergiotapia 5y ago
bullshit - AWS has existed for years and their UI is atrocious. Netlify's UI meanwhile is delightful to use and predictable. You can get something up and running in no time flat, even without Netlify experience.
ascorbic 5y ago
Have you tried using Amplify?
neom 5y ago
How's AWS lightsail working out as a DO competitor?

BartBoch 5y ago

This can go really close to antitrust laws - I am not sure if the risk is worth it.

lvl100 5y ago
As far as I am concerned, the US is not going to go after tech monopolies outside of maybe Facebook. They are quite literally taking over the world and that’s bringing a lot of money and benefits to US interests. The US is a commerce first country. They will never stand in the way.
- handrous 5y ago
  If we were doing things right and wanted to really benefit from having these giants around, we'd go 1950s-Japan on them and harness them to drive a broader prosperity-increasing economic engine, while still letting them thrive and grow huge, while guiding them to advance broader economic-strategic goals. Having them around and so globally dominant is a huge opportunity, and one that won't last forever. But I doubt we'll use it like we could before that time's over.
gk1 5y ago
How? There’s Vercel and Cloudflare to compete against.
- dymk 5y ago
  It’s not about being a monopoly, it’s leveraging their power in other markets to have an advantage in this market.