Building for Non-Profit Communities with Vercel and Next.js
summary
Non-profit community builds require brutal focus: pare features to a hackathon MVP, get explicit volunteer time commitments, and eliminate onboarding friction. Using Vercel and Next.js cuts deployment pain — 45 minutes to learn and automatic builds and deployments replace long CLI installs and cryptic errors. The team removes two backend repos, spins up foundations and deployed two front-end apps in an afternoon, preserving volunteer hours and enabling measurable community exchanges (example: claiming thousands of dollars in member-to-member services).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:16Who Are We?
- 5:19The Game Plan...
- 5:33The First Iteration
- 6:00What We Learned THE COMPANY COMMUNITY MVP
- 8:14Skill Share
- 10:00Vercel and Next.js
- 13:30Comparing Platforms
- 16:171909 Dev Team
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