u/_Mexh

Hi,
I am building a side project that lets solo devs and small teams control who can access preview deployments. Came out of my own frustration with Vercel pricing (min. $20/user/month).

Signups so far: zero.

It genuinely solves a real problem for me, so I don't want to bail too early. But I've stumbled on an adjacent space I could pivot into. I'd reuse a lot of the infrastructure, but the core would have to change.

How do you decide when it's time to actually pursue the pivot vs keep pushing on the original?

Hey,
I'm currently researching how others handle click-fraud and traffic spikes caused by bots.
It feels like malicious, bot, and AI-driven requests are exploding right now.

Solutions I'm exploring:

• Google reCAPTCHA v3
• Cloudflare Turnstile
• WAF rules

But there doesn't seem to be an easy answer. We're hosting our Next.js project on Vercel and are thinking about moving to Cloudflare or a VPS.

How are you handling this? Curious what's actually working in production.