it has actually scaled pretty well and has been negligible cost-wise.

I didn’t have to do anything to handle HN traffic. Just a boilerplate nextjs app.

it's pretty sad, they motivate you all throughout their docs to use it, when just a webp would work ok

it's literally that meme of the bus — the happy guy is you and vercel and the sad one is your wallet

(unless you need dynamic scaling and minification though)

What’s the problem with <Image />?

Vercel charges for image optimizations/dynamic scaling. People get wrong perception that it should be a free service because the DX is so easy...