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Re: Replit Mobile App

#91

Post by ellis0n »

Hello, I'm Viktor from Ukraine, the author and founder of the Animation CPU mobile coding platform, which I've been developing for 10+5 years.

2 years ago during COVID-19, 2014-2022 war in Ukraine and financial pressure, I wrote to Amjad with my ideas about mobile coding and was looking for support.

He was introduced as a judge in the Pioneer.app remote accelerator and as an investor, and I had reason to trust him. As a result, he copied 5 ideas out of 5, about which he said that they say "I still do not understand what your project is about" and silently copied everything. I am a programmer with 20 years of experience and this looks like the biggest YC programmer scam in the world. Considering how russian maniacs want to steal everything and destroy Ukrainians and European civilization.

I asked Amjad to help my project, make a donation and help Ukraine, but he never did.

Lets try my original mobile dev project https://twitter.com/AcpuStudio

2012-2020 https://animationcpu.herokuapp.com (covid-19)

2012-2015 https://acpul.tumblr.com (original old school)

Re: Replit Mobile App

#92

Post by quechimba »

xnx wrote: post #56
ramenator wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the idea here is to enable people in places of the world that may not have laptops, where mobile phones are people's only computer. That's how I'm looking at this, but that's just my guess.

I agree. I think it's great. I was trying to point out that most(?) Android and iOS devices allow you to connect any cheap USB or Bluetooth keyboard.

My MacBook Pro died from humidity while I was trapped in the amazon rainforest during the panedemic, and I had to do some work, so I bought an USB keyboard in Iquitos and I set up a development environment with postgres, vim, tmux, ruby, rails etc, inside Termux. Small screen, and no devtools in mobile browsers, but worked pretty good otherwise.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#93

Post by joshxyz »

ndneighbor wrote: post #63

It's honestly impressive the amount of coding that young people do from their phones. There is a very healthy healthy community of those who have some solid environments on their (mostly Android) devices. Whats funny is that this was the dream of the One Laptop per Child non-profit that was solved by the flush of ARM devices instead of donor dollars (ftw free market!) I work at Railway and a lot of our younger, inter…

still the best time to be alive. it's crazy i can ssh to my servers using my phones these days.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#94

Post by joshxyz »

gmaster1440 wrote: post #55

I’m seeing a lot of responses clarifying that this app is designed for folks who either can’t afford to code from a computer (for various reasons outside of their control) or want to quickly prototype ideas or make changes to existing projects. To better illustrate my skepticism (and bias), I’d like to invoke an imperfect analogy to writing novels. Imagine a mobile notes app that touts an impressive list of features…

never as the primary tool of course, but it's great for starters.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#95

Post by brap »

ellis0n wrote: post #91

Hello, I'm Viktor from Ukraine, the author and founder of the Animation CPU mobile coding platform, which I've been developing for 10+5 years. 2 years ago during COVID-19, 2014-2022 war in Ukraine and financial pressure, I wrote to Amjad with my ideas about mobile coding and was looking for support. He was introduced as a judge in the Pioneer.app remote accelerator and as an investor, and I had reason to trust him. A…

This is not surprising, based on his past behavior. I think you should make a “Tell HN” post.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#96

Post by etaioinshrdlu »

user3939382 wrote: post #81

This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…

Let it be a lesson... Hacker News never forgets?

Re: Replit Mobile App

#97

Post by Aliabid94 »

user3939382 wrote: post #81

This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…

A company is more than the personality of its CEO. Gates, Zuckerburg or Elon's personal faults shouldn't override the work and mission of thousands others.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#98

Post by javier123454321 »

bogota wrote: post #75
javier123454321 wrote: post #72

I mean, I think this is just the start. If I am able to create entire environments all cloud based, I can then just use an ipad when I'm travelling. Ok, not ideal for everything, but this is a use case that I've been waiting for a while and it's just not quite there yet. Eventually I can see there's people that will get to employable levels of coding proficiency without understanding the underlying complexities of en…

People have already got to that level without understanding the environment and hardware. I have worked with them and spent a lot of time explaining how the system works. I personally don’t understand how people enjoy programming without understanding the stack they are ontop of but im sure some C and assembly programmers said the same thing about most of us today.

This is a necessary part of creating more sophisticated systems. Abstracting the lower ends of complexity to focus on the higher ends. The problem is, of course, when the abstractions leak and you need to debug a level lower than you're used to dealing. Still, I think that this is the best discussion on the matter [law of leaky abstractions](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...). In the end, yes, it's best to understand everything all the way down to the thermodynamic processes that enable something to be produced, but you cut your losses at some point in order to get started. A leaky abstraction is when you are forced to learn, and how you discover that some of your assumptions are mistaken.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#99

Post by smnrchrds »

user3939382 wrote: post #81

This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…

IIRC, not even an ex-employee, but an ex-intern.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#100

Post by duncan-donuts »

Aliabid94 wrote: post #97
user3939382 wrote: post #81

This is the founder who turned into a psycho tyrant (I forget his exact words, but something to the effect of, "we're not the same small company, I have money and lawyers now") on an ex-employee for an innocent side project, threatened to sue him, etc, until it went viral and then backpedaled and offered some non-apology. I remember stuff like that and will never use this company's tools, which is a shame because I w…

A company is more than the personality of its CEO. Gates, Zuckerburg or Elon's personal faults shouldn't override the work and mission of thousands others.

A company usually mirrors the values of its executives. You're right it shouldn't override the mission of the many, but the faults are baked in there somewhere.
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