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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

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Post by poulsbohemian »

meguest wrote: post #10

I 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?

Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.

Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

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Post by jgalt212 »

poulsbohemian wrote: post #21
meguest wrote: post #10

I 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?

Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.

I can quickly run some code on my daughter's Chrome book. I like having that option.

Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

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Post by Shane325 »

mark212 wrote: post #14

the jobs link is interesting. Takes you to a functioning command line but has no other hints or instructions. An interesting gating function: those who don't know how to proceed further (or can't problem-solve sufficiently to find out) aren't likely to succeed in the role and can safely be excluded. Might also have the added bonus of being safe from headhunter bot scrapers.

Interesting indeed. Definitely weeds out applicants who are not familiar with the command line.

Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

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Post by RBerenguel »

poulsbohemian wrote: post #21
meguest wrote: post #10

I 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?

Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.

We've occasionally used it when discussing Python X vs Python Y behaviours across separate machines (I don't have 3.6 installed but 3.7, a coworker has 3.6 but no 3.7) and are the kind of questions you just want to quickly check, not create a new virtual environment (under Homebrew on Mac, good luck having 3.6 _and_ 3.7 if you regularly `brew cleanup`...) or spin a docker instance. The coworker also regularly tries Scala stuff there (he's had to code review some simple things to start getting familiar with the language), he seems to like it more than the normal Scala repl (which I use).

It's also handy for funny little languages you may not have (the APL version it has is decent enough, for instance, although I prefer GNU, as the free one)

Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

#28

Post by amasad »

sethbannon wrote: post #15

Funny to see PG listed as "Paul Graham, founder of Viaweb" and not "Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator" :-)

Tongue-in-cheek :-P but I do think that Viaweb is relevant here: their original business model (it was called Webgen) was to let people host their sites with them. They were also the first to figure out "cloud" where they ran their customers generated code on their infrastructure.

I believe after building Viaweb, PG had a similar idea of an IDE + language + infrastructure to allow people to build and ship applications from the browser.

Re: Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

#29

Post by amasad »

_sword wrote: post #18
amasad wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting). You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the langauges. As for our plans to become an IDE: we've given ourselves the hard task of being a REPL-first IDE and to always load in under 2 seconds. More here: https://repl.it/blog/platform For…

Congrats on the fundraising and the momentum Amjad!

Thank you!
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