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Rauch: Enterprise customer builds all products and communications in v0
“We already have a customer, an enterprise customer of vZero that only works with vZero. All of their products, all of their features, all of their client communications are VZero native.”
Liu: Non-technical users get stuck in v0, Lovable, and Replit when reprompting fails
“Whereas if you're not technical, you can't inspect the code underneath a V zero or lovable or Revlin app, right? Like it's just kind of opaque to you. And if you can't reprompt it to get what you want, you're kind of stuck.”
Rauch: v0 produces more accessible code than he writes himself
“Another anecdote that I like to share with people is the model, because V zero tries to embed all of the best practices of the web, the model output more accessible code than when I wrote. It follows the accessibility guidelines that the web standards consorti…”
Rauch: Product builder-customer conversations will be mediated by live artifacts
“The most profound one that I kind of alluded to
Is that conversations between product builders and their customers will be mediated by this, these zero links, these artifacts.”
Rauch: Prompting v0 to 'try something else' reliably resolves deadlocks
“It's amazing how many times I've gotten unstuck in VZero by just saying, like, just try something else.”
Rauch: v0 operates 'code last' rather than 'code first'
“In, in the difference between vZero and a lot of other tools is that, yes, you do have the code and code is very important, but I call it code last rather than code first. You're living in the product.”
Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products
“For us, and the opportunity was if there is maybe five million React developers, which is the sort of the library engine that we use, and there's maybe twenty million JavaScript developers, how many product builders or people with aspirations of building produ…”
Rauch: Vercel turned all 600 of its employees into engineers
“The counterpoint of that is that at Vercel, we had, we have a 150 engineers that can write code. And, 600 total headcount. Now, we have 600 engineers.”
Cheng details Chess.com's internal AI tooling stack across functions
“The PMs are mostly using vZero. The designers love Figma, so they're using Figma Make. The engineers are using a combination of tools right now. So Cursor, Cloud Code, GitHub Copilot. Marketing teams use all sorts of tools for translation, subtitles, you know,…”
Rauch: Many v0 users are backend engineers building end-to-end apps
“A lot of people that use Vizier are back-end engineers that never had the ability to, you know, sort of like, they could ship an API, they could build a great low-level infrastructure system, but to actually bring their end-to-end vision to life, Vizier is sor…”
Rauch: Built a custom flight radar app with v0 mid-flight
“So I built my own during the flight with the worst internet connection that you could imagine in the world. Integrated into a flight data API called Edge Aviation.”
Rauch: v0 generated his personal website in just two prompts
“And so with the last model, it took me maybe 10, 15 prompts. With the most recent model, it took me two prompts.”
Rauch: Vercel uses v0 to build v0 and Vercel itself
“We're showing off how Vercel uses VZero to build VZero and to build Vercel.”
Rauch: v0 will automatically provision databases and models via Vercel Marketplace
“In the next couple of days, maybe even before this podcast is out, we'll have this very tight integrations. So that if you need a database, or if you need an AI model, or if the AI decides it needs that, it'll just seamlessly install it from the Vercel marketp…”
Rauch: Prompting AI with specific aesthetic tokens dramatically improves design output
“And if you can use tokens that are relevant, so neo-brutalist, minimalist, newspaper-like, vintage, make it look like a telegram. Like you can sort of like try and reach for things that you Maybe it would not naturally come to mind and you would be surprised a…”
Rauch: v0 supports ZIP codebase imports with Git integration coming soon
“You can import code bases through zip files, and Git is coming very soon.”
Rauch: Vercel open-sourced the AI SDK powering v0's generative UI
“We've also open sourced the AI SDK, which is a foundational plumbing of the Xero. It allows you to connect any model and generate UI from its responses. Not just output text, but actually generate UI.”
Rauch: ChatPRD Will Soon Launch a v0 Integration
“There's an amazing product being built on Vercel called chatprd.com. It's the VZero for writing PRDs, and it's going to get a VZero integration soon, so you can write your PRD with AI, and then you can deploy to create it with AI.”
Rachitsky: v0 ranked just behind Cursor and GitHub in survey
“I did the survey recently where I asked my readers, what tools do you use most in your day-to-day work as a product builder, as a product manager? And in the category of engineering tools vZero came in right below cursor and GitHub for people's most used AI bu…”