Vercel is a platform that, simplified, sells compute by time and by query.
Static optimized sites take very little compute, and little queries.
Since they have the most used framework (nextjs), they made it more server-heavy and changed the paradigm to one where a single page is built up using multiple queries for even just the html.
They then made sure that self hosting that monstrosity is terribly complex for anything serious, and incompatible with the "serverless environment" of their own platform, unless you have devops maintaining it.
And then they severely overhauled the pricing and gimped the included limits. (We were on <1% usage before. And now at 95%< while changing nothing...)
It could of course be a coincidence, but if that were the case, they would be very bad, yet lucky, business people.
100% will never put anything new on vercel and have been avoiding nextjs like the plague.
Usefull? It is if you use it. I do triathlons and knowing exactly where my blood-sugar level is at would allow me to focus better on the type of nutrition and the impact of it while working out.
It would also tell me if i was a bit down before a race, so i can take some food.
Basically: this is a game-changer for amateur athletes, which would create a tremendous market for it. People i know already use the patches to measure as well, or lactate measurements, ketone measurements, etc. and that's just at the casual amateur level.
Another application that springs to mind is knowing when to eat instead of just having lunch and sugar-crashing 2 hours later in the office.
Hasn't that been the case for thousands of years? It's not like they can't see each other after school hours... I know i used to. And i still see my friends after my workday. I have much deeper connections with the 20 people i see in real life than the 1000 people on my linkedin profile.
Do people thrive more in their mental health when they are supposedly 24/7 accessible? Is it necessary? Is it wanted?
The taxi community has done such a poor job explaining to the car industry why using their cars without paying for them is necessary. It's unrealistic to expect that a starting driver could pay for a drivers license, a car and a taxi-license. The only alternative would be...
...loans or investment. It would be loans or investments. Like any other business.
You can't just steal cars either just to kickstart your taxi business...
Static optimized sites take very little compute, and little queries.
Since they have the most used framework (nextjs), they made it more server-heavy and changed the paradigm to one where a single page is built up using multiple queries for even just the html.
They then made sure that self hosting that monstrosity is terribly complex for anything serious, and incompatible with the "serverless environment" of their own platform, unless you have devops maintaining it.
And then they severely overhauled the pricing and gimped the included limits. (We were on <1% usage before. And now at 95%< while changing nothing...)
It could of course be a coincidence, but if that were the case, they would be very bad, yet lucky, business people.
100% will never put anything new on vercel and have been avoiding nextjs like the plague.