Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley • Hacker News Board

davedx wrote: post #413

tim333 wrote: post #327

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I think experienced programmers underestimate how tricky it is to sort the deploying to cloud platforms bit for beginners.

I'm an experienced programmer and deploying is a clusterfuck these days. It's by far the worst part of making software

I use a mix of Firebase and AWS Copilot CLI (https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/) depending on which platform I'm on.

Both make it pretty dead simple to deploy. AWS Copilot being the "more powerful" of the two, but still dead simple to use compared to CDK, Cloud Formation, or writing Terraform or Pulumi scripts.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by kaicianflone » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

Replit with vercel starter templates and supabase is amazing. I even have it do all my migrations and RLS policies. Also playwright automated testing in github action CI/CD.

I have it originated from a master prompt project I have architected with shadcn suggestions and how I like my app router setup.

I'm hooking this up to comet to be fully agentic with Linear tasks and human-in-the-loop approvals with up to 5 UI versions per feature. And ts contract request/responses for my nextJS api endpoints.

I also host a "LangChain" similar like tool in Azure C# minimal API in a shared replit secret. It's so nice to be able to re-use secrets for Radar, etc across all my apps.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by AlexandrB » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

It's ridiculous to frame an opinion that's extremely common and popular as some kind of expression of rebellion against "the man". What a puff-piece.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by lmc » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #410

lmc wrote: post #404

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Guess you didn't see the footage of them attacking the police with sledgehammers? https://news.sky.com/story/bodycam-footage-of-alleged-sledge...

Even if I hadn’t, I surely would have by now given the amount of “gotchas” in this thread using this crime as some kind of smoking gun justification for proscription. But it is good to know that criminal assault is now equivalent to terrorism.

Whatever. I suggest you take some time to reflect on your biases. What if a group used similar tactics to try and shut down e.g. gay friendly spaces?

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by foobarian » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

kaicianflone wrote: post #434

Replit with vercel starter templates and supabase is amazing. I even have it do all my migrations and RLS policies. Also playwright automated testing in github action CI/CD. I have it originated from a master prompt project I have architected with shadcn suggestions and how I like my app router setup. I'm hooking this up to comet to be fully agentic with Linear tasks and human-in-the-loop approvals with up to 5 UI ve…

In the immortal words of Peter Stormare in the VW ad, "what does this do??"

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by Cyph0n » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

lmc wrote: post #436

Cyph0n wrote: post #410

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Even if I hadn’t, I surely would have by now given the amount of “gotchas” in this thread using this crime as some kind of smoking gun justification for proscription. But it is good to know that criminal assault is now equivalent to terrorism.

Whatever. I suggest you take some time to reflect on your biases. What if a group used similar tactics to try and shut down e.g. gay friendly spaces?

1) Uh.. not terrorism? Hate crime perhaps, but that should be decided by a jury, not unilaterally determined by the gov.

2) So arms manufacturers participating in a war (at best!) are now equivalent to.. gay establishments? I suggest thinking through your examples before sharing them :)

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by simonw » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

ActionHank wrote: post #423

ramon156 wrote: post #363

I know this isn't very on the topic, but these articles make me cringe physically. > “You should compete,” I suggested. > He smirked. “I always compete.” Feels like a vocal jerk-off. Just tell me the details, idc how tuff the interview was.

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?

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by simonw » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

ramon156 wrote: post #363

I know this isn't very on the topic, but these articles make me cringe physically. > “You should compete,” I suggested. > He smirked. “I always compete.” Feels like a vocal jerk-off. Just tell me the details, idc how tuff the interview was.

This is a style of writing called "narrative journalism" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism

I find it pretty distracting too.