Dax Raad

But now I had to pay taxes on it.

So if you're going to invest in a company, make sure you're not going to join them.

It's a bad use of money.

And then you did SST and then you did some other stuff as well on the side, right?

Open Next.

So Open Next, I think, was probably a thing that blew us up initially.

This wasn't even a thing that we wanted to build.

We were serving people in AWS space.

Every single day, someone would come to us and be like, we like what you guys are doing, but we really need help deploying Next.js AWS.

And over and over, like for a year, people were just nagging us about this.

And we didn't want to do it because we weren't Next.js users.

Very tedious.

Next.js has a very complex framework.

Trying to recreate the right infrastructure for all that in AWS is a lot of work.

digging into like JavaScript bundling, like Next.js internals, like not very fun, not very exciting work.

So we made Frank do all of it.

So he basically slogged through that and figured out how to get it all working in AWS.

Our goal from the beginning was this project shouldn't exist.

It's just a weird gap because the Next.js team is focused more on Vercel.

And it wasn't like a malicious thing or anything.