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This is really concerning.

This combined with their marketing strategy of copying popular indie products and turning them into NextJS templates creates paranoia in the minds of builders who trust Vercel with their codebases, analytics, and often even their data (via Vercel's storage products).

It seems that an enterprising Vercel employee has a goldmine of data to help inform their next "side project".

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If you self host a NextJS app and vercel copies your product can you sue them ?

They won't have access to your private project info (code, analytics, data etc.) if you don't host on their platform. NextJS itself is an open source framework.

Suing for copying your product is tricky. In general I wouldn't rely on courts to protect your product IP. Execution is the only real moat. Any good product will have many copycats and competitors.

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