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I'm very confused what Replit's business model these days actually is. Their landing page says "Build software faster", and mentions some AI development/deploym
by trevor-e 2y ago
I'm very confused what Replit's business model these days actually is. Their landing page says "Build software faster", and mentions some AI development/deployment platform. What is the actual product? Is it an IDE or something more like Heroku? Above the fold they show an example of some order form prototype. What am I supposed to take away from that? Why would I use a service for prototyping instead of my regular dev environment?
I don't mean to be harsh, but I'm really confused (and others probably are to) what they are actually selling.
- Reebz 2y agoIt’s a cloud IDE, with 1-click deployments, a great code-focused LLM, and can be used from almost any device. Agree the home page can be tightened up, but if any of that sounds interesting, just give it a try. I’m a hobbyist coder (not full time dev), and it’s been wonderful for me. Zero time to set up an environment (this is the huge one for me), super easy pushes to prod, and I can use my PC or iPad to code equally as effectively (really).
- rmbyrro 2y agoFor a long time I thought they were a cloud IDE "with steroids" to "justify", but I never bought the idea that a webapp would ever be better for professional swe. For that use case, I don't see a valuable thing in a browser environment that can't be delivered in a desktop env.
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- candiodari 2y agoIt seems like their business model is the same as the original Visual Basic: allow more people to write software, so have higher ups pay for replit instead of paying for developers.