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Comment by miyuru

1 day ago

I guess the branding and marketing worked.

Last time I checked Vercel was just reselling services of AWS.

Hey that's short selling them, they also managed to make HTTP middleware not work like you'd expect in nextjs which has some arcane advantage when hosted on Vercel.

    > I guess the branding and marketing worked.

Indeed; I remember watching one of their tech sessions around the Next.js 12 to 13 release and then watching a Microsoft one. One was very clearly a marketing ad.

We shortly ditched Next.js afterwards because of how janky the whole DX was the entire time and how much worse it was during the transition.

Now I'm back in a Next.js 15 project and it's amazing that the DX somehow feels even worse!