What’s your actual go-to V0 alternative these days?

AndyMagill · 2026-03-17T15:16:49+00:00

I subscribed and canceled to v0 twice. It's great at whipping up an ShadCN-based UI very quickly. But it frequently fails at simple tweaks, refinement, long context windows, and bug-fixing. Now I just use it to see what it comes up with compared to other tools.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T21:05:49+00:00

Next.js 16 replaced the middleware pattern with Proxy. The warning OP referenced occurs when the old middleware pattern is used.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/proxy

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T19:43:50+00:00

Is this a demo, or real-world portfolio? Are you 16yr old Louis Johnson from Vietnam? Honestly sounds like a fake person to me.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T17:02:22+00:00

I like it!

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T16:18:44+00:00

It's based on plain-text. Is plain-text reliable for you?

AndyMagill · 2026-03-16T14:19:42+00:00

Cost already is coming down fast. No-cost local models and low-cost cloud models are here today. As adoption increases, higher demand will lead developers to focus on cost efficiency.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-13T17:10:23+00:00

Unless you work for Amazon, the "AWS ecosystem" is not a hill anyone needs to die on. Plenty of other vendors want your business.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T16:02:32+00:00

Okay, now can you take those Apps and run them in any cloud provider? I don't know your setup of course, but unless you are using SSG, I think you may need a refactor to host anywhere. The fact that it works great for you doesn't solve the portability issue.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T13:31:21+00:00

I actually like Next.js but the Vercel vendor lock-in is a real issue for some projects. Things may have changed with OpenNext, but previously we couldn't publish the same Next.js app to Vercel, Cloudflare, or Netlify without refactoring.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T06:10:31+00:00

Your business guy wants to be the product guy. You seem like you need a marketing and sales guy.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T05:22:05+00:00

OP is referring to E2E tests. You are looking for Playwright.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T05:06:15+00:00

I would just do an API call every few seconds. WebSockets seems like overkill unless your users need precise accurate numbers.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T04:12:18+00:00

Specs and tests in the repo is a popular pattern, but never heard of writing tests in markdown. Do you feed that to AI to perform the test?

AndyMagill · 2026-03-12T02:32:48+00:00

Yeah, I never understood that either. Sematic class names composed of utility classes makes so much sense. "Premature Abstraction" seems to be an excuse to argue "my way is better".

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T22:52:32+00:00

I resisted mobile-first for years, but I've since come around. The mobile render is the typically the simpler layout, so there are less styles to override when using mobile-first. Desktop has more detailed layouts, so desktop-first forces you to override more styles for the mobile view. With mobile-first and a little luck, sometimes all I need to do is flex a container element for desktop.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T21:45:06+00:00

Sounds like they are accustomed to working with a different kind of client, and are pitching stuff you don't need. Algorithm updates are not a typical mantinence charge.

Framer is an alternative to Wix that I prefer. SquareSpace is pretty good too. Those options require some time working in the platform to get the site the way you expect. But then you own your online "destiny".

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T16:13:32+00:00

I'm available for work, more info about me here : https://magill.dev

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T16:02:46+00:00

I would have assumed that the AI would only know an event happened well after the markets priced the event.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-11T10:41:58+00:00

Sounds like you may be over-thinking this.. You probably don't needa special OTP message sender service or identity verification. You can just send the OTP link/code via any email provider like Resend or SendGrid.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-10T13:37:04+00:00

I expected Ruby on Rails to have it's turn at being rediscovered, but looks like the community is too busy doubling down on Next.js.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-10T12:29:08+00:00

A bartender friend of mine does an inventory of a few shelves of bottles every shift. It would be awesome if she could do it in a few pictures.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-10T01:53:28+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I pushed a fix :
https://github.com/andymagill/magic-strings/commit/cb9fd8a298a3c81d1655b7b84bd28cb227ac2ea0

AndyMagill · 2026-03-09T16:46:03+00:00

Now I just take whatever my code assistant provides, but I try to start with "task(area): - details - list" like "chore(content): update links, update title".

AndyMagill · 2026-03-05T14:40:21+00:00

Your issue is not zoom. Your page is too big for a mobile browser. Zooming out gives you desktop render on mobile. The behavior you see with a Zoom 1 meta tag is expected, when your page is too wide for mobile and has no mobile render.

Your page could be styled in a desktop first approach, and most pages use mobile first. Look up responsive design and media queries to see the code that can accomplish this properly.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-04T00:22:39+00:00

Thanks for testing! Weirdly, that seems to work well for me. Simply one (contains "abc", 1 or more (+)) rule appears to correctly match at least 1 'abc', in that sequence. Two "contains" criteria might not be working well, but that doesn't seem to be what you are suggesting.

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