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Vercel/Guillermo Rauch are really onto something It's established that cloud is paying a premium for not having to hire: but they've gone a step further and st
by BoorishBears 3y ago
Vercel/Guillermo Rauch are really onto something
It's established that cloud is paying a premium for not having to hire: but they've gone a step further and started testing the limits of how much you can overcharge on top of cloud pricing for good DX
Clerk.dev (another investment of his often pitched along side Vercel) follows a similar model, and almost without fail if I see a Vercel sample pushing a SaaS, Rauch is usually listed as an investor
- re-thc 3y ago> Clerk.dev (another investment of his often pitched along side Vercel) follows a similar model Not when there’s auth0 / Okta charging 5x more. Completely different.
- BoorishBears 3y agoClerk.dev charges like Okta and then gets pushed to people who should be using something like Cognito which costs ~1/100th as much. If you're not building some $100/per/month/seat enterprise tool there's no way you should be reaching for something like Clerk.dev, but obviously that'd be a constrained market. So now it's pushed as a general bandaid for Next.js having a poor auth story, complete with the "official authentication partner" badge (but of course, no mention of the investment)
- tough 3y agoI mean Guillermo invests on a lot of Products, so do so other vercel team members, many of those end up being FOSS or Vercel friendly, hardly anything wrong there. Pumping your own bags is legal
- toddmorey 3y agoYou're right. I've noticed this pattern, too.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI wonder how it'll actually work out for them though, their revenues don't seem to justify their valuation, especially since the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon is now over. For example, in 2022 they only hit $25 million on a $2.5 billion valuation [0]. [0] https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel