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Comment by yumraj

5 years 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.

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leerob  5 years ago

Hey! 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  5 years ago

    Hey 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 :)

inglor  5 years ago

They are a competitor with other clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean with a focus on JAMStack and modern workflows.

_fat_santa  5 years ago

Vercel is a hosting provider for static websites. I see it as a simplified versions of AWS, specifically for static websites.