Vercel

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Vercel is how simple it makes deploying and managing modern web applications, especially those built with Next.js. The Git-based deployment workflow is seamless—every push automatically creates a preview deployment, making it easy to test changes before they go live. The platform also provides excellent performance through its global CDN, built-in caching, and edge capabilities, resulting in fast page loads and a great user experience.

I also appreciate the straightforward configuration for environment variables, custom domains, and SSL certificates, which reduces operational overhead. The dashboard is clean and easy to navigate, and integrations with GitHub and other development tools fit naturally into our CI/CD workflow. Overall, Vercel enables faster development, simpler deployments, and reliable hosting with minimal maintenance.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Vercel is excellent for deploying modern web applications, some advanced configuration and debugging options can feel limited compared to managing your own infrastructure. Build failures and deployment issues can occasionally require additional investigation, especially when working with complex dependencies or monorepos. Pricing can also become expensive as projects scale and usage increases, particularly for bandwidth and advanced features. Additionally, applications with highly customized server-side requirements may require workarounds or an alternative hosting approach. Despite these limitations, Vercel remains a reliable and productive platform for most modern web development workflows.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vercel solves the challenges of deploying, hosting, and scaling modern web applications by providing an automated and developer-friendly platform. It eliminates much of the complexity involved in configuring servers, managing infrastructure, and setting up CI/CD pipelines. Every code change can be automatically built and deployed, with preview environments generated for pull requests, making collaboration and testing much more efficient.

For our team, this has reduced deployment time, improved release quality, and enabled faster development cycles. Features like the global CDN, automatic SSL, environment variable management, and performance optimizations help deliver fast, reliable websites with minimal operational effort. Overall, Vercel allows us to focus on building features instead of managing infrastructure, increasing both developer productivity and application reliability.

What do you like best about the product?

Their product does what it’s made to do.

What do you dislike about the product?

If you want customer service, theirs is non existent. You have to wait 3-4 weeks for an email (they don’t have a chat or phone number) and if you don’t respond within 2 days they close your file and you have to wait 3-4 weeks again. I was unhappy with the product and wanted to cancel, which I did, and was somehow still getting charged by them. They expected me to eat the cost of getting charged for a subscription I already cancelled while waiting for their customer service response. Probably the worst customer service I’ve ever encountered, and I’m quite surprised by their ratings in general

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

As I said it do what it intends to do, which is provide as a hosting platform.

What do you like best about the product?

The best part about vercel is that it's probably the fastest deployment experience I've ever used. I mainly use it to deploy react and next.js projects. In just few seconds one can connect their GitHub repository and get a live url for their website. The dashboard is simple and the deployments are very easy to track.

What do you dislike about the product?

The thing I dislike about vercel is that its free tier has few limitations which becomes noticeable when project size starts to increase. Usage limits and bandwidth restrictions make me think twice before deploying larger projects or apps.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using vercel I had to do set hosting and configurations manually. Vercel allows me to focus more on enhancing my projects rather than worrying about the deployment thing. As a student I build so many projects, being able to deploy and share my app quickly has made it so much easier for me to showcase my work to a larger audience.

What do you like best about the product?

Vercel is easy to use is very SEO friendly! and very affordable for any tier

What do you dislike about the product?

I just want the team to build more features for Vercel that allow other types languages that arent just typescript.

I have cron jobs that im running on other sites that use python
I have s3 buckets on other sites I wish I could do both of these on vercel and manage everything there

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

hosting and great SEO

What do you like best about the product?

As a full-stack web developer, Vercel is the most valuable and most used component of our modern web application delivery workflow. The platform has simplified the entire deployment lifecycle while maintaining enterprise-grade performance and reliability. Vercel seamlessly integrates with modern frameworks, especially Next.js and React. The platform has reduced deployment risks and has significantly improved release confidence. From UI/UX to performance and integration ecosystems, everything is so impressive and reliable. The preview deployments, auto deployments, build logs, secrets handling, and domain management—everything is so smooth and useful.

What do you dislike about the product?

Everything is so great and perfect, but still there's something that can be great. Like the pricing structure for a well-grown project can get more costly than other alternatives. Also, the preconfigurations make less control in users' hands. The analytics and observability layers can be much improved still.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The automations and ease that Vercel provides are great for early-stage startups and even mid-level projects. Vercel itself manages many things itself, like DNS, domains, firewalls, CI/CD deployment pipelines, SSL, and many other things. The GitHub support and integration with it are so great that it can run auto deployments and previews. The platform is great for a new user too, like it can make a website live in just 3 clicks mostly, so it's great for new users. Currently we are using the Vercel AI SDK to build and maintain AI-powered experiences within our app too. From a business point of view, Vercel has improved development productivity, shortened deployment lifecycles, reduced operation overhead, and improved reliability and troubleshooting for us.