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.”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Rauch: Midjourney Self-Hosts Next.js
“Midjourney, speaking of which, is that Next.js user, that self-hosts Next.js, extremely proud of that.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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”
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.”
Swyx: ChatGPT rewrote its frontend from Next.js to Remix
“Recently ChatGPT just rewrote from Next.js to Remix.”
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.”
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…”
Most of Rauch's original Next.js codebase has been deleted
“Most of my original Next.js code is deleted now.”
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.”
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 …”
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, …”
OpenAI built the ChatGPT web interface using the Next.js framework
“ChatGPT itself is built on Next.js.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”