I've never been a Vercel customer and I know their offerings are not entirely comparable but that all seems way expensive compared to Cloudflare. Or Cloudflare plus any cloud service that can autoscale Docker containers and DBs.
I'm assuming the SSO charge is for access to Vercel admin and not end users.
I'm very dubious. Primarily because this goes from landing pad to landing pad. You'll still need transportation from the pad to wherever you're going. A taxi goes door to door. And what's an extra 20 minutes if you're sitting the whole time?
Multiple trains. You can take LIRR to Jamaica and transfer to AirTrain. Or take the A subway line. LIRR is faster but still like 45 minutes to either Brooklyn or Manhattan.
I worked on this back in the 90s and there multiple data sets being used. We had one that was Mennonite family with like 5 living generations and 100ish individuals.
I feel pretty vindicated saying this product had zero chance of success. AR headsets have very little utility beyond some tiny niches. It's never going to produce a consumer product. VR hasn't really gotten past gaming and arguably hasn't gotten past Beat Saber. It's been decades at this point and the market just isn't expanding past enthusiasts and a handful of industrial niches.
They plower a ton of resources into this for years. And it was breaking into an existing market with established competitors. There was just never a market for this product at all no matter how good it was or how good it could have been. 99% of people just aren't wearing headsets and the value prop is just way too small to convince them.
Aren't "solutions engineers" the same thing? Typically smart, young people who want to get into core development, doing technical, client-facing work intended to maximize spend and stickiness? That's been a thing since forever.
There are Customer Success engineers. Any of the terms in this thread were full service teams comprised of engineers, product managers, business analysts and whatever else was needed (or could be sold).
Biden forgave student loans and conservative SCOTUS stopped him. Dems passed ACA and expanded Medicaid and CHIP. Republicans cut them both.
I could go on but I'm sure you know all this. Dems aren't perfect. Nobody ever is and it's unreasonable to expect that. They have pushed legitimate progress. Republicans almost exclusively cause harm to protect the upper class. Retreating into cynicism is just a way to absolve yourself of any civic responsibility.
I'm assuming the SSO charge is for access to Vercel admin and not end users.
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