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@rauchg.blue this one's for you. I Built Better Vercel I built something over the last 4 weeks. It started with a simple frustration. And main thing is i wanted to learn how deployment platforms works. Full demo: x.com/gaurav_nardi...

Every time a team outgrows Vercel pricing, their only real option is to self-host. And self-hosting means rebuilding the entire deployment pipeline from scratch and saying goodbye to all the DX they loved in the first place.

It provisions everything automatically. My platform never sees your data.But halfway through building it I caught myself thinking okay, but what if someone wants GCP next year?

Am I just moving the lock-in problem from Vercel to AWS? So I went one step further. I built a provider abstraction layer. The platform itself has no opinion on which cloud you use. AWS is live right now. But any other provider like GCP, Azure, whatever is one interface implementation away.

Swap the provider, everything else stays exactly the same. Same DX. Same deployment flow. Different cloud.That's the part I'm most proud of. It's not just BYOC. It's actual portability.