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Serious question: do big companies actually use Vercel? I never worked at a big/very big company but I don't see how these prices would scale for them

paxys 3y ago
Next.js is incredibly popular in the industry. Some of the largest companies out there use it. Whether they host on Vercel or not I can't say, but I'm sure that number isn't zero. Of course we are talking more about auxiliary stuff like landing pages, marketing sites, blogs and documentation, not hosting for their core business.
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  Vercel's revenue was 25.5 million in 2022 (according to Nathan Latka who has pretty reputable figures) on a 2.5 billion dollar valuation [0]. They're hyped but it doesn't seem like any big players actually use them at scale, as it's likely much, much cheaper to host on bare cloud providers like AWS, which Vercel themselves wrap (with Vercel also now wrapping the services included in OP's site). [0] https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel
  - chrisco255 3y ago
    How does Latka get its data?
    - satvikpendem 3y ago
      He interviews them on condition of revealing the numbers, which he sells to investors. He has enough clout in the industry that people want to reveal their numbers to him in exchange for being able to raise more money.
- 015a 3y ago
  I know of five or six companies using Next; none of them use Vercel. I tend to think that their moat against “write a five line dockerfile” just isn’t all that large. I use Vercel for my personal site; I’m familiar with the product suite; I genuinely don’t know why anyone would pay the markup beyond not knowing better. The auto branch deployments on PRs is pretty cool.
lightning19 3y ago
BMW uses it
re-thc 3y ago
What do you use it for? Larger companies already have their workflow, compliance etc. Developer productivity alone is not going to be worth going through audits / signoffs. It doesn't add enough to the product itself e.g. does it beat Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, etc in that space? No.
Sateeshm 3y ago
I saw Adobe's name as their customer in their latest video. And Adobe sells cloud services - so mark up on top of markup?

paxys 3y ago

Next.js is incredibly popular in the industry. Some of the largest companies out there use it. Whether they host on Vercel or not I can't say, but I'm sure that number isn't zero. Of course we are talking more about auxiliary stuff like landing pages, marketing sites, blogs and documentation, not hosting for their core business.

satvikpendem 3y ago
Vercel's revenue was 25.5 million in 2022 (according to Nathan Latka who has pretty reputable figures) on a 2.5 billion dollar valuation [0]. They're hyped but it doesn't seem like any big players actually use them at scale, as it's likely much, much cheaper to host on bare cloud providers like AWS, which Vercel themselves wrap (with Vercel also now wrapping the services included in OP's site). [0] https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel
- chrisco255 3y ago
  How does Latka get its data?
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    He interviews them on condition of revealing the numbers, which he sells to investors. He has enough clout in the industry that people want to reveal their numbers to him in exchange for being able to raise more money.
015a 3y ago
I know of five or six companies using Next; none of them use Vercel. I tend to think that their moat against “write a five line dockerfile” just isn’t all that large. I use Vercel for my personal site; I’m familiar with the product suite; I genuinely don’t know why anyone would pay the markup beyond not knowing better. The auto branch deployments on PRs is pretty cool.

lightning19 3y ago

BMW uses it

re-thc 3y ago

What do you use it for? Larger companies already have their workflow, compliance etc. Developer productivity alone is not going to be worth going through audits / signoffs. It doesn't add enough to the product itself e.g. does it beat Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, etc in that space? No.

Sateeshm 3y ago

I saw Adobe's name as their customer in their latest video. And Adobe sells cloud services - so mark up on top of markup?