Hey! I'm Lee, Head of DevRel at Vercel :) Happy to answer any questions you have.

Vercel is a frontend cloud platform that integrates with any framework you prefer (or just plain HTML!). We are also the creators of Next.js, which is a React framework. We try to make it as easy as possible for you to write some code and put it on the web, globally.

Hey Lee, just listened to your chat with swyx the other day. It was great hearing how Vercel positions itself and your thoughts on devrel!

I know Vercel has a great developer relations team already— what would the appetite be for more Svelte DevRels in future? I've been working as a developer advocate and love Svelte enough to have even given talks on it. Would be an opportunity I could see myself in for years :)

We'll likely be hiring more DevRel folks focused on Svelte in the future! We have one currently (Steph) and she's great :)

That's awesome and yeah Steph sounded great from your podcast chat! Thanks Lee :)

They are a competitor with other clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean with a focus on JAMStack and modern workflows.

More like a competitor to Netlify, GitHub Pages, etc

Vercel is a hosting provider for static websites. I see it as a simplified versions of AWS, specifically for static websites.

Used to be called Now. It’s a PaaS.