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What Does Vercel Actually Do? Build & Deploy a Website Fast with v0, GitHub, and the Vercel CLI

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Mar 4, 2026
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👉 Subscribe to my FREE newsletter: newsletter.KingCaleb.com The video explains what Vercel does and why it’s popular, arguing it’s essentially built on major cloud providers but stands out for its developer experience. The host tours the Vercel dashboard, highlights previews and DevOps-style features for frontend workflows, and walks through setup using VS Code or Google’s “Anti-Gravity,” plus installing the Vercel CLI (showing a terminal workflow with Warp). They briefly discuss MCP (Model Context Protocol) and note Vercel MCP isn’t necessary for this deployment. The build demo uses Vercel’s v0 templates to quickly create a landing page for a Phoenix men’s entrepreneurship club called The Nines, generates new site copy and a call to action with an AI chat tool, one-click deploys to Vercel, connects GitHub, and then clones and edits the project locally, ending with how to run locally and add a custom domain. https://open.substack.com/pub/calebking/p/building-websites-used-to-take-weeks?r=ok7f7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 00:00 Vercel Setup and One-Page Landers Tutorial 00:00 Vercel Basics Setup 02:38 Editor and CLI Install 04:42 MCP Explained 06:25 Project Goal and V0 07:52 Pick a Template 08:32 Plan Copy with AI 10:42 Clone and Edit Locally 11:20 Wrap Up Deploy Domain 12:37 Recap and Next Steps

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