mindrun
It's a breeze to set up with any frontend framework, but will work especially well with Next.js (built by Vercel).
RONIN – A new kind of content platform
RONIN
It seems as if this wasn't clear from the UI. Would you agree? It sounds like you've assumed that it's the entire Serverless Function feature that would not be available.
That's true for all the features mentioned in the Next.js 10 blog post: Image optimization, Internationalization, but also Analytics.
Since you mentioned the latter: Did you notice that we wrote a detailed documentation page about how to report those metrics to any service of your choice?
https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/measuring-performa...
Sure, there's obviously a whole UI piece to this as well – but since you interact with Next.js programmatically and there's a quite sophisticated data storage that needs to back all of this as well, Vercel optionally provides you with a pre-built solution.
But again, to be clear: If you want to use Analytics + Next.js elsewhere, Next.js supports reporting them natively – even if not hosted on Vercel.
Zero Config Deployments
I agree strongly. There's been a lot of chance over the last couple of months, as Now 2.0 appeared and the entire platform started adapting to it.
However, I'd also like to let you know that the entire concept of "platform versions" is just a temporary way of slowly allowing everyone to migrate to Now 2.0 at their own pace. Once this process is complete, the whole concept of platform versions will disappear and I hardly doubt there will be any major changes from that point on.
https://github.com/zeit/now-builders/tree/master/packages
(These are just the default ones, you can add your own language using https://zeit.co/docs/v2/deployments/builders/developer-guide...)
With regards to 1.0 "just working": Aside from making 2.0 more intuitive, we're heavily investing into tools that allow you to automatically transition existing applications to 2.0, so that would definitely help a lot.