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Comment by ldthorne | Hacker News Reader

Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especially given how few people are working on this full time -- it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane: he's constantly pushing updates, reviewing PRs, and finds time to be very active on the support channel.

We use a bunch of Zeit's tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com -- we're hiring!), and they're consistently such good and reliable products (doesn't hurt that they have a sharp focus on developer experience).

Congrats to Tim and to the entire Zeit team!

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> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane

Insane is an understatement. The dude has helped me on the support channel more times than I can count. Forever grateful.

Not to mention pkg is pretty awesome too from Zeit

> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane

when looking at tools to build a business on, that can be a liability no?

Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It's definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it's more that there's a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.

As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).

Curious why you didn't mention Arunoda -- does he not work on it anymore. IIRC Arunoda started Next.js right after (perhaps because of) leaving Meteor ecosystem.

I don't think he created it, but he was there early on and works for Zeit. Still eternal grateful for him creating kadira.

Wow, TIL. Also a very nice display of Cunningham's law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

I'm going to post the same answer I gave in another thread on the initial post:

Completely agree! I have used next.js in multiple projects now and have gotten very fast turnaround on any submitted issues. Love the product and the team!

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