Next.js

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IN DEPTH Assertion Supported
Grosser: Nike self-hosts Next.js on Akamai rather than using Vercel
“Nike's on Next.js. They're not on Vercel. They, you know, have Akamai as their CDN and WAF.”
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 26:37 Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
STARTER STORY Disclosure
Florin Pop's Tech Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, and ChatGPT
“I use Next.js for development, Supabase for database and authentication. I use Cream for payment processing, Vercel for hosting, Beehive to send my newsletter, Datafest for analytics for my websites, and I use ChatGPT For AI. That's my main go-to AI tool.”
Florin Pop Feb 1, 2026 ▶ 11:39 I Made $500K From 8 Different Income Streams
MIXERGY Insight
Walls: Use Well-Documented Frameworks for More Reliable AI Coding
“One thing I recommend if you're new to AI coding is to use a proven framework that real coders use that is you know, has a lot of documentation online so that when you ask it to do things, it's going to do it in its little opinionated way which will just make …”
Pat Walls Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 12:27 #2294 He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement
STARTER STORY Disclosure
Acosta reveals Clio's tech stack: Claude, Next.js, Vercel, and Clerk
“To build Clio, actually, we use Claude and Claude code. Then we use next.js for the TypeScript for the code, then Varsal and Varsal chat, then Varsal again for hosting, and then Clark for authentication.”
Lara Acosta Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 15:55 How My App Hit $60K/Month in 2 Months
Constraining v0 to Next.js and shadcn enabled faster execution
“What was really liberating for us was actually the focus on just one stack, or one framework, whatever else was trying to do, General purpose coding agent. We were like, no, we're just going to focus on Next.js front-end and Chad CNN. And that was really, that…”
Jared Palmer Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 9:58 ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Vercel shared its post-training harness with frontier AI model labs
“We also started working with all the frontier model labs to help because it was in our Vercel's best interest. To have them be created Next.js. And also because of the post train models, and you can read about this on the Vercel blog, like we can the post trai…”
Jared Palmer Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 10:33 ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
MAD Assertion Supported
Rauch: Next.js has 1.4 million monthly active developers as top React framework
“Next.js today is the largest web framework in the React ecosystem, 1.4 million monthly active developers.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 5:48 Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
MAD Assertion Supported
Rauch: Midjourney, Walmart, and Nike are built with Next.js
“Midjourney.com is built with Next.js, but so is Walmart.com and so is Nike.com.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 15:51 Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Rauch: Claude, Grok, and Midjourney run on Next.js and Vercel
“So when you use Claude, Or Grok or Midjourney. You're using Next.js. You're using for sales technologies.”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 6:12 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Rauch: Ramp handled 43x traffic spike with 100% uptime on Vercel
“One of our customers, Ramp, had a 43 X increase in traffic when their ad went live. The engineer that worked on that only needed to learn Next.js. Then they pushed their code over sell and now they can reach an audience of a hundred million people without a bl…”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 31:00 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rauch: Next.js has millions of MAUs, Vercel hosts tens of millions of apps
“We have millions of monthly active developers on Next.js tens of millions of applications deployed at the Vercel platform.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 1:13 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
TBPN Opinion
Rauch: Vercel should have pre-notified auth partners before Next.js CVE release
“I think we should have notified those people before that CVE went out so that they could have had the opportunity to, like, look at what the impact would have been to their projects and things like that.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 2:21 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
TBPN Opinion
Rauch: Vercel should have partnered better with Netlify and Cloudflare on Next.js CVE
“And again, we could have done a much better job at partnering with companies like Netlify and Cloudflare who host Next.js as well.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 2:39 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Rauch: Midjourney Self-Hosts Next.js
“Midjourney, speaking of which, is that Next.js user, that self-hosts Next.js, extremely proud of that.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 29:35 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
TBPN Disclosure
Rauch: Vercel is partnering with competitors to support Next.js offerings
“We're actually also partnering with companies that are even competitors over sell to help them manage Next.js better when they want to create an offering like that.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 33:25 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
TBPN Disclosure
Masad: Replit Agent will avoid Next.js because it is optimized for Vercel
“I said, no, because we want to bet on something like Vite that is open, like community builds and the way Next.js has been trending is that it's optimized for Vercel.”
Amjad Masad Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 19:44 Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
STARTER STORY Disclosure
Fricks: Tech Stack Centers on Next.js, React Native, ShipFast, and Supabase
“So my tech stack is Next.js mostly, and for mobile apps, it's React Native. With Expo, and I use also a boilerplate to start all my web projects called Shipfast from my friend Mark Lou. I use Supabase for the database every time”
Jack Fricks Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 15:15 I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom’s Basement
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Contradicted
Brown's Next.js Replit template has over 15,000 forks
“This template for Next.js has over 15,000 uses on repli, like forks”
Riley Brown Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 2:50 How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
Offering cloud hosting is the only way to monetize open-source libraries
“The one way you can monetize these ideas is by offering a hosting service. Think about Next.js and Verso, for example.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 4:55 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Swyx: ChatGPT rewrote its frontend from Next.js to Remix
“Recently ChatGPT just rewrote from Next.js to Remix.”
Shawn Wang Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 52:47 Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: Next.js open source adoption directly correlates with Vercel paid signups
“That, an XJS community, is what actually fuels all of our growth. So if that number is going up and to the right of how many people are using Next.js, we see the same correlation for how many people are actually signing up on our paid platform.”
Morgan Brown Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 25:37 Mastering High-Volume, Low-CAC Marketing: Strategies from Gorgias, Vercel, and Hypergrowth
IN DEPTH Disclosure
A 2014 essay on rich web applications became the blueprint for Next.js
“In 2014, I had written this article and I highly recommend this to prospective founders. I wrote this essay called The Seven Principles of Rich Web Applications. It's the first essay on my blog. I think this was right, right after I had sold the company. And t…”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 19:05 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Supported
Most of Rauch's original Next.js codebase has been deleted
“Most of my original Next.js code is deleted now.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 20:21 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Redfin and Trulia independently built Next.js lookalikes before its launch
“So I remember right, right after we released it, someone from Redfin reached out and they were saying, we're building the same thing. And then a week later, someone from Trulia reached out, oh, we're building the same thing.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 23:56 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Insight
Developer experience at all costs is counterproductive for businesses and developers
“The framework that I use today is developer experience at all costs doesn't work. It it's bad for the vendor startup enterprise. It's bad for the developer because the end date is like the good old adage of the customer is king. We all get paid. You, me, like …”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 25:59 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Insight
Pure developer experience frameworks failed because user performance never solved itself
“There was a lot of optimism that certain things that were really good developer experiences, For whatever magical reason, let's call it Moore's law or just hopium. They were like, okay, the user part will figure itself out. You know, fast forward a few years, …”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 27:08 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Supported
OpenAI built the ChatGPT web interface using the Next.js framework
“ChatGPT itself is built on Next.js.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 37:11 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Highly regulated customers use Vercel exclusively for pre-production workflows
“We have, for example, customers in extremely highly regulated hosting environments that cannot even use cloud. So they use Vercel as a way of speeding up the iteration cycle of their Next.js project. So they use it exclusively pre-production.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 44:29 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Supported
Rauch regrets unnecessarily launching two other open-source projects alongside Next.js
“When I launched Next, concurrently, we launched another two really successful open source projects, and there was just no need.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 1:04:57 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
20VC Insight
Rauch: Concrete past examples are essential to ship fast with high quality
“I think if you don't have those stories that you can actually give people, like, it almost sounds like, it sounds like, it sounds so contradictory, That you could move fast and ship with high quality, that if you cannot offer people those stories of like, this…”
Guillermo Rauch Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 35:42 Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Rauch: Vercel and Next.js power ChatGPT, Under Armour, and Nintendo
“In fact, it's powered by Next.js, our open source framework to websites like underarmor.com or Nintendo, where we provide the infrastructure to serve All their traffic and help them iterate on their web presence.”
Guillermo Rauch Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 0:53 No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Rauch: Walmart.com and mobile TikTok web run entirely on Next.js
“Like, walmart.com entirely runs on Next.js. Mobile TikTok runs entirely on Next.js on the web.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 11, 2023 ▶ 13:54 Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
Rauch: Vercel tech hits 3M weekly and 200M total downloads
“Well, to speak to community metrics, so our technology gets downloaded three million times a week. We have over two hundred million cumulative downloads.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 11, 2023 ▶ 27:56 Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
MAD Assertion Supported
Vercel ingests Next.js telemetry into Tinybird to power Vercel Analytics
“They started by building Vercel Analytics which is their user-facing dashboards. All of the telemetry coming from Next.js gets ingested into Tiny Bird in real time, and then they create API endpoints that they consume from their application so that their users…”
Jorge Gomez Sancha Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 20:42 Build Fast APIs Faster Over Data at Scale | Tinybird Founder & CEO Jorge Gomez Sancha
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
SeriousCode and Snapify are built with React, Chakra UI, and Next.js
“We love React, use Chakra UI, use Next.js. This is how we are building our products, and we love those frameworks.”
Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 13:48 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

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