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Guillermo Rauch: recommendation

13 Apr 2025 Lenny's Podcast Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)

“They were not what I wanted the flight radar to look like. So I built my own during the flight with the worst internet connection that you could imagine in the world, integrated into a flight data API called Edge Aviation.”

— Guillermo Rauch

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Guillermo Rauch
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13 Apr 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Wow. "v0, we need to have ... " It's like, "Yeah." Like you have a one-on-one performance review with a tool. "Hey, way to talk, try something else. What you're doing so far is not working. And it's amazing." One fitness function that I'm keeping in my head is I really want to find the thing that it cannot build with v0. So as part of the v0 community, I have my own profile. We'll share the link with people. You can see six or seven things that I've built that I consider to be pretty impressive. So for example, I was flying from Tokyo to San Francisco. The internet was horrible. What I like to do during flights is I like to monitor our own flight while I'm on the flight. So I open Flightradar or whatever, and I was extremely bored as well. And I noticed that Flightradar, I don't know which one it was, Flightradar, there's like four or five of them. They were very bloated. They had ads. They were not what I wanted the flight radar to look like. So I built my own during the flight with the worst internet connection that you could imagine in the world, integrated into a flight data API called Edge Aviation. So this is what I told v0, "You're going to build the best flight radar on the planet." I wasn't prescriptive at how, so it used a tool called Mapbox and a JavaScript library called Leaflet. I didn't tell him that, or her, I don't know, v0, what it is. And subsequently, once we cooked on the design, which looks, I would say beautiful, I then got more ambitious and I said, "All right, let's make it real now." And by the way, that's actually how I would work. So it's how I like to work. I like to work experience first, and that's also how Vercel was built. "Let's start with the front end. Let's start with the planes on the screen." And by the way, there's a lot of subtleties, here. For example, there's so many flights going on at any given time that there's just too many. So I had to work with v0 on improving performance. And once again, I wasn't prescriptive. I just said, "We have a lot of flights, chief. Let's- " Did you say, "Chief?"…

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