At Agora, we use the following staging deployment URL: https://frontend-v2-staging-new.vercel.app/
Before I had my coffee this morning, I accidentally typed in https://frontend-v2-staging.vercel.app/ into my browser to check our last deployment and got routed to a staging environment for a company called Aspis.
This got me thinking. Vercel automatically generates a unique URL for every new deployment that corresponds to the project name. And coincidentally, the deployment URL is public by default. So there's probably millions of simple and fun projects out there that are waiting to be discovered.
What other Vercel deployment URLs could I guess?
Here's a few that I found before realizing that I need to get back to work:
There's something nostalgic about discovering these sites. They remind me of the early internet: functional but goofy. Not as polished and buttoned up as most websites we use today.