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

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

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Post by egl2020 »

mejutoco wrote: post #12
jychang wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't write for your median reader, you write for the vast majority of your readers. That's a basic concept of writing. Journalism should be accessible, so even if you know what a database is and how to deploy it in different envs, you shouldn't write assuming that. If a large portion of your readers don't know what you're saying, you've failed as a writer. If your readership includes high school students, you wr…

If the median has half the users over it and half under it, wouldn’t writing for most of your readers be very close to writing for the median? If we are aiming for 51% (most readers). Most readers is somewhere between 50% and under 100%. I appreciate the idea, but I think there are always assumptions. Like you did not explain what the median is because this is hn. I like the standars of the economist, always saying w…

Write for your median reader, and the bottom half will stop reading you. Problem solved.

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

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Post by redwood »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #36
redwood wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vercel fiasco?

The CEO thought it a good idea to take a beaming selfie with Netenyahu and then post it to X

Got it. I was going to say it sounds like less than a fiasco but I see this is in context of someone criticizing the Replit CEO for a specific action so now I get it. Apologies for being dense. It's a reminder that people leading companies are just people. And if we have a purity test on everyone we better be prepared to have a purity test on ourselves. And not just in our own eyes but in the eyes of everyone else. And that's where it quickly falls apart.

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

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Post by reactordev »

mcherm wrote: post #18
kortilla wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Richard Feynman didn’t use poor analogies.

Chuck Norris doesn't even NEED analogies. He explains the original problem so hard that you understand it without reference to a similar but more familiar situation. Chuck Norris would probably have mentioned "dev" and "production" and never needed to discuss furniture used for stacking open-faced envelopes for holding papers.

Chuck Norris doesn’t use AI, AI uses Chuck Norris.

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

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Post by sillyfluke »

ctkhn wrote: post #38

If OpenAI and Anthropic's models are good enough at coding to make coding agents useful for non-technical employees Replit is targeting, why can't either of those companies use their AI to build a wrapper around their product as good or better than Replit? Has this guy never taken n -> infinity in a problem before?

OpenAI taking an interest wouldn't be so bad for Replit. Since YC boasts that being incestuous is an upside of YC, ie selling your product to other YC companies, it is possible that OpenAI does the decent thing an outright buys Replit. It is rather likely that Altman and Masad have some sort of relationship going back to their YC days.

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

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Post by reactordev »

brazukadev wrote: post #33
0xsn3k wrote: post #3

personally, the evolution of replit makes me sad. i remember writing some of my very first ever programs in python using replit in middle school, as it wasn't blocked by the school network and it was the best way of running arbitrary code online back then. i used it to execute java code for AP computer science in high school, and i improved a ton at using the terminal as well. At some point, I stopped using the repli…

You should be grateful and happy for the people that helped you in your journey, they made it! You know, apps are not AI (yet), what you used for free was built by someone that deserves the success.

But that’s true of everything we use. Someone made that fork you use. That plate. The shoes you wear. Same for an app. You don’t deserve anything. If you make something, and release it into the world, you have a responsibility. Not a reward. A reward may come. People may pay you for your services or your novelty but in no way shape or form are you deserving of it. Deserving of something is a 3rd person observation. You can not demand that you deserve anything.

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

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Post by brazukadev »

reactordev wrote: post #45
brazukadev wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be grateful and happy for the people that helped you in your journey, they made it! You know, apps are not AI (yet), what you used for free was built by someone that deserves the success.

But that’s true of everything we use. Someone made that fork you use. That plate. The shoes you wear. Same for an app. You don’t deserve anything. If you make something, and release it into the world, you have a responsibility. Not a reward. A reward may come. People may pay you for your services or your novelty but in no way shape or form are you deserving of it. Deserving of something is a 3rd person observation. Y…

> But that’s true of everything we use. Someone made that fork you use

I paid a fair price for my forks and plates and shoes, I don't need to be grateful for that. Using a platform for free and then complaining that now they focus on making money is not the same.

> Deserving of something is a 3rd person observation. You can not demand that you deserve anything.

I'm not OP nor Replit owner.

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

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Post by csixty4 »

0xsn3k wrote: post #3

personally, the evolution of replit makes me sad. i remember writing some of my very first ever programs in python using replit in middle school, as it wasn't blocked by the school network and it was the best way of running arbitrary code online back then. i used it to execute java code for AP computer science in high school, and i improved a ton at using the terminal as well. At some point, I stopped using the repli…

I agree so much with this. I used Replit extensively to prototype things in different languages and share my work with my teammates, who could then suggest tweaks to my ideas. We never came close to the limits of the free tier, but I paid for it anyway because I loved the product.

The magic is definitely gone.

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

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Post by hu3 »

rsp1984 wrote: post #23

Let's not forget this gem here [1]. Tells you everything you need to know about the company and its leadership. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

Sad to see https://riju.codes offline. Cant resolve DNS.

Last push to main was 2 months ago so there's hope: https://github.com/radian-software/riju

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

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Post by 1718627440 »

siffin wrote: post #21
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if any of my coworkers has ever properly used a filing cabinet

Spreadsheet would have been the better analogy.

Which wouldn't be an analogy, because spreadsheet programs can be considered and often are a database.
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