20 engineers on Hacker News describe using Vercel first-hand: 6 endorse it, 5 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Vercel's bill wasn't just $200—they actually flagged the account for 'unusual bandwidth usage' (video hosting) and threatened to suspend it. That's why we switched to proxy links”
regret · production · PeterAnderson · 2026-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Vercel + Next is cheap if cached correctly. A special someone at Vercel gave us some tips”
endorse · production · lukeigel · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Avoid next.js / vercel at all costs.”
regret · production · Zaheer · 2025-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run the biggest classifieds site in Germany and vercel costs are impossible to pay.”
regret · production · d13z · 2025-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eventually we moved to nextjs and vercel. We are faster with iterating on our landing page”
endorse · production · debarshri · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I dislike some features built around Vercel offerings (eg. middleware) but it's... a good idea.”
regret · production · poisonborz · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the web presence team is happy with Next and Vercel”
endorse · production · jitl · 2023-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Vercel's on demand revalidation.”
endorse · production · dalicommerce · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't have to spend even a minute thinking about how I'm going to deploy my app.”
endorse · production · presentation · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used them in production at multiple companies and I contributed to their CLI... They broke every promise or expectation they ever set with me”
regret · production · sholladay · 2021-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vercel for a month now and it's just so nice and easy to use”
endorse · personal · throwaway998663 · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Now in production for about a year. I fell in love with the version 1 product because it lived up to the mission”
mixed · production · 1 yr · robotkdick · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been a paid customer of Zeit for a while and have really loved their products thus far. But v2 is making me reconsider my plans.”
mixed · production · sholladay · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ported one prototype to Next.js and hosted on Vercel in a couple of days”
neutral · production · jeremyjh · 2026-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wanted to host on Cloudflare but half the stuff doesn't work so I'm forced into Vercel.”
neutral · personal · esperent · 2025-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only ever run smaller stuff on Vercel. Super concerned.”
neutral · production · wateralien · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried using supabase to back a vercel project. It was far too slow so we switched back to postgresql included with vercel.”
neutral · personal · alexnewman · 2024-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While I have used Vercel in the past, I'm not currently.”
neutral · production · freedomben · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using them for a long time, but I've also just started learning CDK and Amplify”
neutral · production · fillipvt · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Serverless (AWS Lambda, zeit.co)... I'm finding it easier to stick with older methods”
neutral · personal · maliker · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?