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

Post by Jtsummers » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #16

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.

Let us not forget how replit tried to cancel Riju (an open source project from one of the early devs which does something similar) Edit: looks like they succeeded or the author moved on

Post by ares623 » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 10:10 PM UTC

kubb wrote: post #57

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?

The funding round is all that matters. Now he can pay himself 15 million per year plus a severance package and he’s made it.

Post by gcr » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

csixty4 wrote: post #47

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.

Post by gcr » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #55

I don't understand the appeal of Replit. Claude and other agents do what they do for much cheaper and efficiently. Is it for newcomers who don't know anything about software development, nd Replit fills the gap with basic user instructions and structure? Why is it even a thing while real agents are there?

Post by maxbond » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 11:09 PM UTC

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #64

maxbond wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you are profitable your investors could pressure you to exit to some other company so that they can recoup their investment. But I doubt they were profitable. Going by the article they had about 100 employees and about $2M in revenue before they downsized. Assuming a median salary of $100k that would put their payroll alone at $10M. But the napkin math is kinda beside the point because they did keep raising m…

Maybe $100k gets you one fresh grad in Bay Area but outside of OECD countries it may get you several middle engineers. I bet most startups outsource their development after the first few core developers.