Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Replit Mobile App

blog.replit.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 212 posts

Re: Replit Mobile App

#171

Post by eloisius »

adenozine wrote: post #166
johnfn wrote: post #138

Is this the same Replit who used legal threats to shut down an open source project made by an intern after they left[1]? I don't know how anyone can in good conscience support this company. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

This is like trying to cancel a homeowner because they spoke rudely to a home invader. He was out of line, for sure, but he was not wrong, from what I read about the situation. I’ve seen replit used in classroom settings both before and after that kerfuffle and it’s an extraordinary product., imho. If I were a teacher, I’d probably use it.

A home invasion is a pretty bad analogy for someone that created a competing project in their own time after working for them. There was never any plausible allegation that the intern stole their IP as I remember.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#172

Post by matheusmoreira »

johnfn wrote: post #138

Is this the same Replit who used legal threats to shut down an open source project made by an intern after they left[1]? I don't know how anyone can in good conscience support this company. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

I haven't forgotten that but I still respect their effort here. I think we really need a good app to write code on mobile devices so that they aren't merely consumer devices.

This Replit app seems to be well polished but I don't like that it needs an account. I opened the app and the first thing I saw was a sign up screen. I expected to see a programming language picker or text editor.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#173

Post by rayhanadev »

girvo wrote: post #159
rayhanadev wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the open source project did actually use similar Replit internals, I don't even work for Replit but with a lot of poking at their previous APIs and their own open source softwares I was able to figure that out. TBH that whole ordeal felt like a bar brawl between and employer and a fired employee, though. Neither handled the situation correctly and both were in the wrong.

> both were in the wrong Alright, let's assume that's true for a moment, for sake of argument. One of the parties we're talking about has massively more power than the other, so I'm inclined to have higher standards for them than that of an intern.

And in that you are correct! :) I 100% agree that there were better ways for Amjad to have handled that.

That being said Radon did copy some Replit internal design choices for Riju, which was completely overlooked because he was able to play off as the weaker individual. I'm sure in most other situations open-sourcing the work of another company, even if its something you designed as an intern, is not ethical in any case. Furthermore, Radon did not make any concession to the incident. He went on with life, after the incident and continues to portray Replit as the villain with references to the blog post and the way it was written to incriminate, not objectively oversee the problem.

In short, he used pathos to play y'all.

Meanwhile Amjad apologized _extensively_ for his actions and allowed Riju to continue, despite using what was previously (not anymore) Replit's internal design.

In the world of OSS people love the underdog and hate "big tech", when there's more gray area that could be explored. Not that this is a defense of Amjad or an attack on Radon, but there's more to this story that needs to be seen in order to get the bigger picture :).

Re: Replit Mobile App

#174

Post by crummy »

lupire wrote: post #76
amasad wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes we have stories from all over the world where people are using mobile to build real things. There is a kid in Egypt, for example, that built discord bots for a living on his phone. Additionally there are also lots of cases were fairly well off folks with access to desktop computers and wifi that find themselves with a phone and want to prototype an idea or make a quick change to a project. I’ve been using it and…

I appreciate the spirit but you are going to destroy your eyes doing that. At least grab a tablet.

Just own a tablet? How?

Re: Replit Mobile App

#175

Post by arjvik »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #146
xnx wrote: post #26

I'm bullish on this because mobile (and web) development is ridiculously overcomplicated to a beginner. I think it's a common misconception that coding/logic is difficult. I find the development setup and deployment to be much more complicated. As evidence, take a look at the impressive workarounds that citizen developers use to make things work in an easy environment like Excel. A keyboard and mouse probably solve m…

>I find the development setup and deployment to be much more complicated Fully agree with this. To the extent where I wish there was an "environment service" wherein I simply specify the desired packages and tools I want via GUI (No JSON or Terraform or anything other than radio buttons and drop downs) - and I get a spooled up VM with all the dependencies and paths perfectly built in with no jank package clashes or d…

So a GUI for Nix?

Re: Replit Mobile App

#176

Post by dinobones »

This is the kind of project you build when you realize your startup has no competitive advantage. You lose focus and just build pointless stuff like this and shoot it out into the void and hope something happens.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#177

Post by guestbest »

girvo wrote: post #160
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replit isn't for building HA/mutli-tenant stateless, web applications with hot-hot failover, data redundancy, perfect docs and APIs It's for people who want to learn how to code or want to prototype something absolutely as quickly as possible with the minimal amount of tooling and experience.

> It's for people who want to learn how to code or want to prototype something absolutely as quickly as possible with the minimal amount of tooling and experience For sure. I'm just personally not sure that's a billion-dollar company idea myself, which if you've taken $100 million+ of funding, it will need to be. Definitely willing to eat my words though if they pull it off: anything that gets more people into progra…

Funding goes to companies that will pass on a part or all of that funding on to partners. It is like a big wash that goes round and round until the right people get rich. And the reason for this is to make the world a better place

Re: Replit Mobile App

#178

Post by monocularvision »

nneonneo wrote: post #168

I love both Pythonista and play.js on iOS, and it'll be nice to have another option. The former two, though, run the code entirely on-device, but from the looks of it Replit will run code on their servers? While that's not a surprise (given repl.it's model), it's definitely a little less useful for me (personally) since it'll require a persistent internet connection to test anything, and the code won't have access to…

Huge fan of Pythonista. Hadn’t heard about play.js. I will check it out! Thanks.

Re: Replit Mobile App

#180

Post by Kuldr »

another_story wrote: post #115

As a teacher the basic Replit stuff is great, but their class management stuff is atrocious and unintuitive. For example, under one class I created 9 units with a number of challenges under each unit. You copy that to a new class (Team is what they call it) and all sections disappear). Then if you want to reorganize, even if there are sections, you have to drag and drop, scrolling up or down the page and repeating th…

As another teacher completely agree.

I have managed to find a work around to the import/reorder problem. Replit organises by alphabetical order so we have simply numbered our challenges 01.01, 01.02, ..., 02.01, etc. Then on import they all live in the default section in order. We then only use the sections feature for projects/tests.

Now Replit education is free I doubt they will be prioritising any fixes or qol improvements for that product. It does seem to be working as intended though we have several 17/18 year olds that are using Replit for personal projects and one that is fanatic and uses Replit for everything.

Post reply on HN