Vercel turned its homepage into a Halloween Easter egg—and someone found a werewolf by hovering the triangle ten times
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted a video showing the homepage's Halloween Easter egg. Users discovered that hovering over the triangle ten times makes a werewolf and a cauldron appear.
Vercel's homepage has changed. On October 29, CEO Guillermo Rauch posted a video on X showing the new homepage they made for Halloween. Ghosts, pumpkins, cobwebs, and that classic triangle were all redesigned.
For those unfamiliar: Vercel is a frontend deployment platform and the company behind Next.js; many developers use it to ship websites and AI apps online. Its homepage has long been known for its design sensibility, and the black triangle logo is its signature.
The details in this Easter egg go further than the video suggests. A user said in a reply that hovering over the triangle on the page ten times makes a werewolf and a bubbling cauldron appear in sequence—without ever clicking the Deploy button once. Another user added: "I've used this triangle for years, and only today did I learn there's a werewolf living inside it."
The video is below. Pay attention to the transition when the page loads—the "Drop to deploy" prompt has been given a Halloween version.
There's another small detail. A user noticed that Vercel kept the / redirect and added a separate /home path for this Halloween version. In other words, they didn't want the Easter egg to affect the normal entry point, but they still wanted you to be able to see it. For an infrastructure company to open a separate route just for a holiday Easter egg is itself a little interesting.
Companies making B2B products usually aren't too fond of this kind of flourish. Vercel is different. Its brand strategy has always spoken through aesthetics and developer experience, and the homepage is its most direct billboard. The Halloween Easter egg doesn't generate any deployment revenue, but it gets some people to screenshot and share it—and remember that triangle along the way.
Of course, some people hovered ten times and nothing happened. Galatéa said she tried ten times "for science" and ended up with a werewolf, a cauldron, and zero deployments. It might be the most honest epitaph for a developer.
发布时间: 2026-10-30 09:27