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Oh sweet summer child, you have no idea what is coming.

The second "happy to pay" becomes "we could hire a team of devs for what we pay vercel" you will realize you made a giant mistake.

Hopefully you will be suffering from success and have the runway to migrate away or just eat the costs, but many many startup die due to impossible unit economics driven by ridiculous hosting costs that platforms like vercel lock you into.



I've been using Vercel for > 5 years. Suppose it's possible but that's true for any platform.


...no it isn't

If you host your non-nextjs SPA on Cloudflare and they do something you hate.. you move

Vercel has every incentive to lock everyone in as hard as possible and raise prices all they can. Not something I'd want to tie my business to


> "we could hire a team of devs for what we pay vercel"

It will be evenn worse when they see they need one, two, three more engineers to deal with the Next.js mess they created.


I've been using Next.js since 2017 (before dynamic routes were even a thing!).

The app router kinda sucks so we're staying with /pages. No complaints thus far with a team of 6 engineers.




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