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rvzyesterday at 3:05 PM1 replyview on HN

There is no serious reason to use Vercel, other than for those being locked into the NextJs ecosystem and demo projects.


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allthetimeyesterday at 4:00 PM

I recently got hit by a car on my bike. While I was starting the claim filing process the web portal for ICBC (British Columbia insurance) was acting a little funky / stalling / and then gave me a weird access error. Down at the bottom of the error page was a little grey underlined link that said “vercel”.

I’m not exactly surprised, but it seems like the unserious, ill-informed and lazy are taking over. There is absolutely zero reason why a large, essential public service should be overspending and running on an unnecessary managed service like vercel… yet, here we are.