When inspiration struck Benjamin Td to visualize train routes across Europe, he created a Next.js application on Vercel in the moment of inspiration. To his surprise, his project ended up generating over a million views, reaching the top of Hacker News and going viral on Twitter.

Link to heading Scale to vacation

Right after launching Chronotrains, Benjamin went on vacation. It went viral . And with Next.js on Vercel , he peacefully enjoyed his vacation.

I posted Chronotrains and went on vacation. By the time I came back, there were more than a million visits. The site was quoted by politicians and newspapers. It started debates about infrastructure, public policy, green transportation, and rail service quality in many different languages. I never had to think about load or response times.

Benjamin Td

Benjamin’s project was called Chronotrains – an interactive map showing how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours.…