1st line: "Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work."
2cnd: "Developers love Next.js, the open source React framework Vercel built together with Google and Facebook. Next.js powers the biggest websites like Twilio, for use cases in e-commerce, travel, news, and marketing."
3rd: "Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat."
4th: "Accelerate with your team
Frontend development is not meant to be a solo activity. The Vercel platform makes it a collaborative experience with deploy previews for every code change, by seamlessly integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket."
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I get that it's something about making apps, something related to react, and that you're 'obsessive' etc. but nowhere do you seem to describe what this is, or even the thrust of it.
Is it a framework, a hosted service for files, servers, lambas?
Even your docs. introductory page doesn't say 'what the it is':
I think many of us won't be bothered to 'try' something that can't be described in anything but 'higher order abstractions' (i.e. 'made for you', 'performs well', 'respected by others').
It's like your missing 1 or 2 very key sentences that would really help.
"Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work" -> Our platform includes frameworks (e.g. Next.js), deployment and hosting (e.g. serverless infrastructure), and collaboration (preview deployments, nextjs.org/live).
The first section of the docs (https://vercel.com/docs) says:
"Vercel enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly and scale automatically – all without any configuration."
How could we improve this further? Which part is still unclear? Open to any feedback.
Are you hosting static files? Like AWS S3? It's a giant file server? With some fancy framework specific aspects?
Or is this like 'Wix', but using a specific framework?
Servers? Lambdas? Where is the business logic?
Is there storage, like RDMBS or or a document/noSQL DB?
Maybe it's fair to assume a lot of people are familiar with Next.JS ... but I suggest most are not. 'Next.JS is a React front-end Framework' is helpful, but most of us already know React itself is a framework, so a 'framework on a framework' probably needs a few more words as well.
So even a few well placed, even pedantic descriptions might help a lot, especially for those who arrive 'completely naive' i.e. have maybe 'heard of' Vercel, but that's it.
"Same with how nextjs now wants to meddle with my rest API." -> You also don't have to use API Routes! It's completely opt-in.
Great for using lambda funcitons abstracted away on their API folders...
Best of luck
