Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
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Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#2Congrats to the team!
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#3I'm disappointed that now you need to sign up on www.repl.it rather than just spinning up a test environment, definitely cuts down on usage. I've found a workaround with www.http://repl.it/languages/python3 for example, but I'm not sure how long this will still be active given their plans to become a full-fledged IDE.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#4Real happy for the them, I've using them for so long, probably since they started. Amazing service.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#5Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#6This is awesome I hope they invest some of that into rebranding as I do believe Repl.it is probably the worst name for anything.
It almost sounds like a nefarious file format or like some software company for the early 90s; maybe that’s the vibe they’re going for.
Even the word Replit looks like “reptile”. I guess it’s very developer-y it’s just grammatically grating on the nerves.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#7I'm disappointed that now you need to sign up on www.repl.it rather than just spinning up a test environment, definitely cuts down on usage. I've found a workaround with www. http://repl.it/languages/python3 for example, but I'm not sure how long this will still be active given their plans to become a full-fledged IDE.
I think it has always been like that, if you scroll to the bottom you can click on what environment you want to load. Been like that awhile I think.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#8I'm sold -- hadn't seen it before but I was able to run python and install a bunch of packages quickly without issue. I can see this being big.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#9This is awesome I hope they invest some of that into rebranding as I do believe Repl.it is probably the worst name for anything. It almost sounds like a nefarious file format or like some software company for the early 90s; maybe that’s the vibe they’re going for. Even the word Replit looks like “reptile”. I guess it’s very developer-y it’s just grammatically grating on the nerves.
For what it's worth, I found them by googling "online c# repl", so having repl in the name is pretty strong for people with my use case.
Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
#10I am a long time user of repl.it and I think it's great but I do wonder what the expected ROI is here? Call me short sighted, but It's still just a repl. Perhaps it could be sold to GitHub to integrate with Gist?