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

After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 146 posts

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#121

Post by CuriouslyC »

submeta wrote: post #94

There is no future for Replit considering how Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are moving into dev tools. And then there‘s Cursor and the likes. As an online IDE they would have had a chance. But when they pivoted into AI, they decided to enter a highly crowded place with very strong players. Recently OpenAI and now Anthropic are developing mobile clients as well: https://www.testingcatalog.com/anthropic-prepares-claude-…

Cursor is in the same lifeboat being circled by sharks as Replit. What value does teaching noobs how to code or showing changes in an IDE have when the AI is smarter than humans and human in the loop just slows things down and makes them worse?

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#122

Post by _heimdall »

joshdavham wrote: post #103
markdown wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been my experience also. You gotta give it detailed instructions for everything at the start. You can't just build as you go, because every time it adds something it breaks something else.

I've never used replit but I'm curious what types of choices the app makes when building. Like how does it decide on the architecture, backend language, frontend framework, etc? Even if the non-technical user is unaware of the tech choices being made, the AI still has to make such decisions. How does it decide?

One token at a time.

If it has detailed context of exactly what the entire app will need to do before writing any code, the first tokens will be more likely to build an architecture that works well in a language and framework that is suited for it.

If the initial context is thin on details, it will still pick an architecture, language, and framework but it may not be the best fit for the end goal. After those choices are made that just becomes more context, and it likely would never consider whether the language is now wrong and the entire codebase should be started fresh with a new language or framework.

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#123

Post by _heimdall »

markdown wrote: post #83
cloudking wrote: post #37

I took it for a spin spin to build a simple task manager. It worked for 45 minutes, built half the solution and then asked me for money. Compared to the other options in this space, it seems like an expensive solution.

What other options?

An entry level programming book? Building a basic task manager is a pretty straight forward task, it doesn't take much coding knowledge to do and is one that is often used as an example to teach programming.

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#124

Post by speff »

Kiro wrote: post #112
Perenti wrote: post #15

I've seen bots promoting Replit on Steam forums of indie games. If this is the way they are marketing their product, I don't see it as having a future. What I've seen in the Dwarf Fortress forums alone makes me want to avoid the company with a 10' pole.

I find exactly one post about Replit in the DF Steam forums and it's definitely not from a bot account. Players who have just discovered vibe coding love to tell devs "just" to use something like they've been enlightened.

I found two, but it looks like the topic was deleted. Kagi had it partially cached as a search result[0]. The first thread in that list seems a bit more ...pushy than the second thread. Though I think you're still right - was probably just a new coder who was excited about what they found.

[0]: https://files.catbox.moe/oepmri.png

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#125

Post by apwell23 »

markdown wrote: post #82
Cyclone_ wrote: post #79

I've used it for creating a template for an app. It usually creates a pretty accurate app with at least a basic UI and some interactions. The biggest issue is that once you've created the template, it's pretty tough to add some more complicated features using the AI.

This has been my experience also. You gotta give it detailed instructions for everything at the start. You can't just build as you go, because every time it adds something it breaks something else.

> because every time it adds something it breaks something else.

standard ai workflow

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#126

Post by abuani »

cj wrote: post #91
SadTrombone wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What information do you have that they weren't contributing to the bottom line?

The CEO saying "the business isn't viable" says a lot.

That sounds a lot like the CEO is throwing 50% of the company under the bus for his own failures to you know, make the business viable.

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#129

Post by dvrj101 »

sincerely wrote: post #2

>Rather than becoming defensive, Masad and his team owned the problem. In fact, says Masad, within two days, they rolled out an automatic safety system that separates a user’s “practice” database from their “real” one. The way Masad describes it, it’s a little like having two versions of a website’s filing cabinet — the AI agent can experiment freely in a development database, but the production database, which is th…

> Masad and his team owned the problem. he fired half of his team so it really wasn't an option for rest of them team.

Re: After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

#130

Post by victorbojica »

abuani wrote: post #126
cj wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CEO saying "the business isn't viable" says a lot.

That sounds a lot like the CEO is throwing 50% of the company under the bus for his own failures to you know, make the business viable.

And would it be better that the whole 100% go under the bus for his own failures?
Post reply on HN