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Tools: Vercel
Category: Hosting and cloud
Site: vercel.com
Vercel
Hosting built around Next.js, which it also maintains. Now sells itself as infrastructure for agents as well as pages.
Owns the framework and the place it runs.
What it is sold for
Deploying a Next.js application and its edge functions.
Named alongside
These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.
Named by:
- Vercel's generative interface tool, producing React and Tailwind you can iterate on and then take into a project.
Same shelf
The rest of hosting and cloud, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Adaptable did not answerTemplate-driven deployment of applications and databases. The domain no longer resolves.
- The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
- Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
- Sandboxes, queues and model inference with fast cold starts, sold on how quickly a container becomes ready.
- A control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs distributed applications without requiring an operations team.
- DigitalOcean's managed application hosting, deploying from a repository without cluster management.
- A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.
- Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.
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