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replit is actually quite popular among teenagers and basically third world youngsters trying to spin off a service or a "product" of their own. - i mean yes u
by paglaghoda 9mo ago
replit is actually quite popular among teenagers and basically third world youngsters trying to spin off a service or a "product" of their own.
- i mean yes u cannot make money out of teenagers but damn replit's Vibe coding tool is fucking good. Better than Lovable or Bolt any day.
just to give u a perspective from a 20year old kid from a 3rd world county
- truetraveller 9mo agowhich country are you from?
- user_7832 9mo agoGoing by the username, I'm guessing India or perhaps Bangadesh
- paglaghoda 9mo agoIndia it is
- mbesto 9mo agoI think this is exactly it. Replit is a cheap and easy way to get an MVP off the ground ASAP. However, their audience is inherently hackathon attendees, not real businesses. Whether these can turn into real businesses (en masse to justify low churn and consistent SaaS ARR) or not is the real question.
- jokethrowaway 9mo agoWhy don't you just use Claude? I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them
- CharlieDigital 9mo agoA friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical. No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy. (He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)
- tim333 9mo agoI think experienced programmers underestimate how tricky it is to sort the deploying to cloud platforms bit for beginners.
- cj 9mo agoMost experienced programmers have no experience deploying apps (or their experience is from earlier in their career). Especially engineers at big companies where there are whole teams dedicated to infra/devops. The percentage of programmers with side projects they deploy themselves is very small. I’d guess less than 10% have a side project deployed somewhere. (And these days
- overfeed 9mo ago> Most experienced programmers have no experience deploying apps (or their experience is from earlier in their career) Most experienced programmers in my circles have evening/weekend projects. We are notorious for hoarding unused domains for the "brilliant side project" that gets a burst of commits right after domain-renewal time
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- jtbayly 9mo agoYeah. I'd say about 1/4 of my time on my new app has been spent on deployment-related stuff, rather than the app itself. And I'm not inexperienced with servers and cloud. It's a pretty big deal to integrate that stuff.
- CharlieDigital 9mo agoI have a habit now of getting that out of the way first just so I don't have to think about it. Get a basic functioning prototype and then figure out my infra and deployment as early as possible.
- paglaghoda 9mo agoclaude is just too expensive and u need to atleast a bit technical expertise in it. replit has made it like, even a 11 year old can make something out of thin air and acutally publish it to get a link to share
- infecto 9mo agoThird world country could be region blocked. Not sure why this is controversial. I know it’s an issue with Cursor as they have to limit availability of models based on region. OpenAI specifically blocks India and Pakistan for example, among a long list of other countries.
- paglaghoda 9mo agoi'm not aware of any service geo-blocked by OpenAI to either pakistan or india Could u share a link or something? P.s. found nothing on a google search
- sometimes_all 9mo agoWhy would anyone region-block a country which gives them a ton of users? OpenAI actually has India-specific plans alongside their regular ones, and I use Claude Code every day with zero problems.
- jacooper 9mo agoBecause i can do it on the phone.
- epiccoleman 9mo agothanks for sharing, that's an interesting perspective actually. It's easy for us "pro devs" to kind of ignore platforms like Replit as "training wheels." I look at it and think "why would I use that, I have all my own stuff set up the way I like it locally". But us older guys (i'm not that old, 34, but still) can easily forget how valuable and exciting it is to have tools that make the publication / deploy easy. It's cool to hear what the younger, less experienced crowd gravitates towards in the modern dev tool landscape. Thanks for sharing!
- echelon 9mo agoHow long do those customers stay customers? Are their customers making money? Will they be able to build retention? I've got this question of every platform like this - Lovable, etc. Cursor and IDE tools and models cater to a smaller audience, but they're sticky, repeat customers, big spenders.
- sieep 9mo agoExcellent point. With that being said, I think there is market potential for replit, specifically in the middle ground between 'not knowing any code' and 'full on developer using an IDE/Cursor'.
- echelon 9mo agoAnd they can grow into the latter if they believe that's the opportunity.
- tchock23 9mo agoI'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. These are valid criticisms of platforms like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, etc. that cater to "fast MVP" type customers. I'm not sure how you sustain the valuations if the churn inherent to those type of "hobbyist" or "solopreneur" type customers isn't solved.
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- jimmySixDOF 9mo agoIf your optimizing for simple, powerful, and on mobile then Replit is hard to beat.