Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.
What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they’re getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.
how and why the selfie happened.
If you mean he forgot to caption “about to put a haymaker through this guy´s dick” I doubt that´s the case here
For people, usually with empathy, it’s dumb, for others this may be a call for business. And there isn’t a shortage of people supporting the genocide. US literally had 2 genocide enablers for last president election. Rich people in US never shy away from the most unethical shit to make more money.
What do you think the military industrial complex has been doing since WWII?
How is this business? Dude literally lost a shit ton of customers.
Doesn’t have to be smart business.
Cloudflare pages has been very nice since I stopped using Vercel about a year ago. Netlify is also nice!
heart-warming. uplifting. sometimes i feel that i live in a world where “cash is king” and ego matters more than almost anything else.
You do, “Cash is King” is why people canceling these things en masse makes a difference in the world… you make a difference in their bottom line.
My only regret is that I cant vote with my wallet against things I cant afford to buy in the first place.
Name and shame: Guillermo Rauch is a genocide supporter.
“keeping our free societies ahead”
Why is my dog barking?
How out of touch do you have to be to post such a photo now?
How fucking thick do you have to be to post a selfie with Netanyahu if you’re selling a platform for software engineers, notoriously a group of people at least somewhat educated, full of leftists (the entire open source movement could be considered communism) and terminally online.
goddammit now i have to find another host
Filen, NextCloud, pCloud, Internext, MEGA, Tresorit, IceDrive , all EU provider, currently using US providers is supporting Israel.
+1 for pCloud. I’ve been using them for years. Really great service.
Do any of these even do what Vercel does?
Visit the homepages and look which features they have, normally similar in all cloud services. But for sure they don’t have friendly meetings with Netanyahu
They all appear to be cloud storage. Vercel is a platform to host applications.
Also not a problem, there are also a lot of EU hosting services
Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.
This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol
