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The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed

https://theupsellgame.com/
25•bartoindahouse•1h ago

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mslev•12m ago
Funny timing - I was just on a call yesterday about renegotiating our enterprise Vercel contract. The Vercel employees on the call were very friendly, and did share information when prompted, BUT I came away from the call with the understanding that yep, their pricing is intentionally opaque. MIUs are 1 unit = $1, but the rate at which MIU are consumed vary by SKU. Which SKUs do you need, which are you using? Best of luck figuring that out. Cache hit? Fast Data Transfer. Cache miss? Fast Data Transfer _and_ Fast Origin Transfer, so 2x the cost.

For what its worth, they have an internal quoting tool, Copper, which we got a glimpse of on the call. This shows super detailed breakdowns of usage and pricing (for quoting, not actually for billing) and would be really useful to see...but of course they couldn't actually share that information with us.

Anyway, /rant. SaaS pricing being complex and not-exactly-user-friendly is nothing new.

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https://dfarq.homeip.net/why-commodore-went-bankrupt-in-1994/
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Apple Introduces App Store Monthly Subscriptions with 12-Month Commitment

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment/
1•Cider9986•2m ago•0 comments

Thoma Bravo Refuses to Inject Fresh Cash into Ailing Medallia

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2•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

Epic Games Wins Reversal of Stay in App Store Fee Legal Battle

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/epic-games-wins-reversal-app-store-fee-battle/
3•satvikpendem•3m ago•0 comments

Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't

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4•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

Tool calls that execute 100% of the time

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2•remilouf•8m ago•0 comments

iPhone 17 Is Apple's Most Popular Lineup

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/iphone-17-is-apples-most-popular-lineup-ever/
1•Cider9986•8m ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/aniket-ray/ccbuild
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Gram: A fork of Zed without the bloat

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram
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Show HN: A dashboard for the closest trains in New York City

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Ford's $1B Bet on Detroit's Future – Newlab Tour (11 min video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARWV1-Guz4
1•rmason•13m ago•0 comments

Kernel Contracts: A Spec. Language for Correctness Across Heterogeneous Silicon

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22032
1•matt_d•13m ago•0 comments

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/1/index.html
1•downbad_•13m ago•1 comments

China Suspends Autonomous Driving Permits After Baidu Outage

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2•layer8•14m ago•0 comments

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1•riteshnoronha16•16m ago•0 comments

Apple announces record fiscal second quarter

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1•Amorymeltzer•19m ago•0 comments

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1•f0r3st•25m ago•1 comments

Tanstack Malicious Code was a college student with Google Antigravity

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4•amrrs•27m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu website and repositories outage due to DDoS

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6•jtlebigot•31m ago•1 comments

Don't Delegate Understanding

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Apple's iPhone revenue jumps to $57B despite chip shortages

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3•mgh2•32m ago•2 comments

Apple beats on Q2 earnings, thanks to China and iPhone sales

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2•mgh2•33m ago•1 comments

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5•embedding-shape•36m ago•0 comments

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1•TapamN•37m ago•0 comments

AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

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4•pseudolus•39m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent systems as distributed software

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4•etherio•39m ago•0 comments

Embodied AI: China's ambitious path to transform its robotics industry

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1•atlasunshrugged•43m ago•0 comments

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16•nahimn•44m ago•5 comments

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3•mooreds•44m ago•0 comments

Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI this year

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5•mgh2•46m ago•3 comments