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Copy link to heading Speechify on Vercel 500,000+ pages served across 40+ languages Cut costs 50% by auto-scaling with Fluid compute Zero user impact on bad deploys with Instant Rollbacks Speechify started as a tool for people with dyslexia.
Cliff Weitzman, Founder & CEO, built it because reading was challenging and audio made it much easier.
That initial use case led Speechify to tens of millions of users and an Apple Design Award for inclusion.
The product has since grown into something much larger: an AI work platform where 60 million people listen to documents, delegate tasks to agents, and complete work entirely through voice.
But the journey wasn't easy.
Early on, they got hacked, and for half a day, every visitor was redirected to a casino website.
After that, Denis Chernobai, Head of Growth Engineering, knew it was time to re-evaluate their infrastructure stack.
He decided to rebuild from scratch on Next.js and Vercel, and they ended up serving 40 times more pages, reaching a global audience three times larger, and achieving a 50% cost reduction.
Since migrating to Vercel, Speechify has maintained 99.99% uptime and hasn't had a single security incident.
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