Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by skeeter2020 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:06AM
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Do you think it's reasonable for someone arriving at the website with the very common question of "what exactly do they do?" to click the "Documentation" link?
For a developer audience, yes.
For a non technical audience, no.
OP posted the non-tech audience answer and is hot under the collar about it. Do you need them to spell out every part of what they do? Part of investing is due diligence
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by vijaybritto on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:39AM
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This assumption that any developer might automatically navigate to documentation page sounds silly. This is not true. Developers glance the page like normal people do and the OP's concerns are not wrong.
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by NationalPark on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:16PM
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I would! I also like to look at the job openings page when evaluating a technical product. The experience they ask for can give a lot of insight into internal engineering health.
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by IggleSniggle on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:49PM
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Haha I do this too but stop telling everyone about this one weird trick or our secret will be out!
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by darkhorse13 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:35AM
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It's square aimed at developers though, so shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by seanclayton on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:49AM
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It's square aimed at companies who hire developers. They want company money, not developer money. Sure, some developers pay for Vercel's products, but they want big chunks of money that managers approve to expense.
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by 1123581321 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:21AM
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Just about every page on the site explains what they do, or describes part of what they do in a way that makes inference easy.
Re:Vercel raise $40M Series B
by higerordermap on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:49AM
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> lots of the time you want to write what he impact is up front.
This one is better than most zero information PR lines. For what it is worth the statement can't be written by GPT-3.
It was pretty easy to just click "Documentation" and see more: https://vercel.com/docs
> Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions that fits perfectly with your workflow. It enables developers to host Jamstack websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and requires no supervision, all with no configuration.
Seems fairly clear what it does.