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Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by yumraj on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:46PM (#29190769)
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.

Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by leerob on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:58PM (#29190887)
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.

Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by ronvoluted on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:53AM (#29196658)
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 :)

Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by leerob on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#29203996)
We'll likely be hiring more DevRel folks focused on Svelte in the future! We have one currently (Steph) and she's great :)
Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by ronvoluted on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:57PM (#29206983)
That's awesome and yeah Steph sounded great from your podcast chat! Thanks Lee :)
Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by inglor on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:48PM (#29190788)
They are a competitor with other clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean with a focus on JAMStack and modern workflows.
Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by dbbk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:02PM (#29193765)
More like a competitor to Netlify, GitHub Pages, etc
Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by _fat_santa on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:54PM (#29190847)
Vercel is a hosting provider for static websites. I see it as a simplified versions of AWS, specifically for static websites.
Re:Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time by ryanSrich on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:48PM (#29190784)
Used to be called Now. It’s a PaaS.