From waterbeds to a Wayfair competitor
summary
City Furniture replaces homegrown SSR and image tooling with Next.js and Vercel previews, cutting average build time from 30 minutes to 2.5 minutes, running ~100 independent builds a week, and saving roughly one day of work per ticket. The Next Image component outperforms the custom one by 4–14 Lighthouse points. A custom sectional configurator ships in four weeks instead of four months. Previews and time-traveling deploys make bug bisects trivial and projected yearly developer time savings reach about 1,950 hours.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Wayfair competitor journey
- 0:52Slow site and SEO
- 2:14Next.js pain points solved
- 3:16Next.js Image component
- 4:24Git flow with Vercel previews
- 5:49Debugging with Vercel time travel
- 8:02Custom sectional configurator
- 8:45Next 12 and Vercel upgrades
- 10:07Future growth with modern tech
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