What kind of dumbass title is this? 99.99% of the world is not afraid of silicon valley.
Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#452Know Amjad from years ago. We're on the opposite sides of ideological barricades, but he's no terrorist sympathizer. Just a man who loves his people. He seemed extremely pragmatic too-- if he ran Gaza it'd be an economic paradise by now.
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
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These pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath. This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.
Are you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
These pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath. This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.
Are you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
This is similar to a political campaign not telling you to vote on X, but still talking greatly about X. It's completely legal
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Why don't you just use Claude? I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them
A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical. No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy. (He did end up movin…
> (He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)
I'm really curious what this looks like in practice? Like can you just download the whole codebase, throw it against a Supabase Postgres DB, and you're off running? What about any backing services or microservices? Is it tied to any thing like lambdas etc.
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
These pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath. This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.
I don't know what it is but I don't think that it's an ad. Otherwise I guess they wouldn't have that snarky pro-israel undertone towards him.
I did not even notice that, yikes.
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#457Know Amjad from years ago. We're on the opposite sides of ideological barricades, but he's no terrorist sympathizer. Just a man who loves his people. He seemed extremely pragmatic too-- if he ran Gaza it'd be an economic paradise by now.
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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#458Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.
> is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Yes. And one side of the coin supports and justifies colonialism, apartheid and even genocide; the other side fights against it.
Is it apartheid that a jewish person cannot buy land in Palestinian controlled areas?
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
These pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath. This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.
Are you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
> He smirked. "Yes, I am."
Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
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How long do those customers stay customers? Are their customers making money? Will they be able to build retention? I've got this question of every platform like this - Lovable, etc. Cursor and IDE tools and models cater to a smaller audience, but they're sticky, repeat customers, big spenders.
Excellent point. With that being said, I think there is market potential for replit, specifically in the middle ground between 'not knowing any code' and 'full on developer using an IDE/Cursor'.
And they can grow into the latter if they believe that's the opportunity.