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Vercel
15 verified traps, most recently checked first.
- Deploy fails with 'Hobby accounts are limited to daily cron jobs' or the daily cron fires up to an hour late
Hobby accounts are limited to daily cron jobs. This cron expression would run more than once per day.
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- New Vercel deployments fail after October 1, 2026 because the project is still on Node.js 20
Every new deployment errors while the project Node.js Version is still 20.x
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Pages cached on Vercel started returning x-vercel-cache MISS on every request after September 30, 2026
x-vercel-cache: MISS on routes that used to HIT
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- AI Gateway rejects requests with 'Insufficient funds' even though a BYOK provider key is configured
Insufficient funds. Please add credits to your account to continue using AI services.
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- AI SDK streamText error never reaches try/catch and the chat UI only shows 'An error occurred.'
An error occurred.
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Pushes to a private GitHub organization repo never deploy on a Vercel Hobby account
No deployment is created for commits by teammates or bots
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Server-side fetch to process.env.VERCEL_URL returns 401 or the Vercel login HTML
fetch(`https://${process.env.VERCEL_URL}/api/...`) returns 401 in a deployed app
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Upload or large JSON to a Vercel Function fails with 413 FUNCTION_PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE
413: FUNCTION_PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- useChat sends a stale value in DefaultChatTransport body after React state changes
Server always receives the first render value from transport body
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Vercel cron job shows no log and does nothing because the route answers with a redirect
No runtime log for the cron path at the scheduled time
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Vercel Function returns 504 FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT after 10 or 15 seconds on an older project
504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT with code FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Vercel ignores the dashboard Build Command, Output Directory, and Node settings because vercel.json has builds
Build log warns that Build and Development Settings from Project Settings will not apply because builds exists
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Vercel never caches an API route response even though it sets Cache-Control max-age
x-vercel-cache: MISS on every request to a function
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Webhooks and API clients calling a Vercel preview URL get a Vercel login page instead of the function
Stripe, Slack, or GitHub webhook deliveries to a preview URL fail with 401 or a redirect to vercel.com/login
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
- Work started after returning the response never finishes on Vercel (emails, logs, analytics silently dropped)
A promise fired without await after sending the response never completes
Vercel · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations
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