Replit

“Even for me, and again, I know folks sometimes mock me, but the biggest change for our little tiny team of two and a half humans is we run Replit between me and Amelia. We run it 20 hours a day now.”

“Replit and lovable of a year ago and bolt were not a moat today. They have massive moats. And so I think it could easily happen with an instinct. All the use cases that has to accomplish become a moat.”

“This will seem cheap, When Replit's at fifteen billion, Lovable's at a hundred billion, everyone's out there because Linear will be the one powering them all.”

“It shows you what he's hooked up to headless within Salesforce too, because there's multiple things running into this. So he's got class. I call it classic Salesforce for sales, right? So Salesforce CRM that our sales team has always used for like 10 years. He…”

“We created a mini renewal agent. So let me scroll down. I'll show you guys this. So we've got this mini renewal agent now going where, you know, we had our AI day, I think last month or something. And previously it'd be a manual thing where we have a digital e…”

“I firmly believe a big chunk of Replit and Lovable could have been Figma's if they'd done it.”

“Which I would even argue and say Replit lovable are not at that level yet, right, for that complexity of software.”

“Fable went in, found it, decided those were changes that should be made to the app, MCP'd into Replit, told Replit to change the app, change the core algorithm around Jason's Gems, and never told me Never shared it. Never did anything. Did all of this autonomo…”

“We saw this, like, small business, like, lawn care chain sign up, and, you know, we're like, what do they do with the API? And a lot of these small businesses are automating parts of their back office using Lovable, or Cloud Code, or Cursor, or whatever, Repli…”

“Raffle would have probably died if I wasn't telling a story that is larger than the company itself.”

“These models are goal-seeking, right? And they want to finish projects. So Replit just wants, Amelia, you know this, Replit wants to finish. Replit wants to finish, and so does CloudCode if you use it on an own. But when, but if you use Cloud on top of it coun…”

“When they started talking to each other, they just reconciled all the data. They looked at all of our past history of how much, you know, we've put in and they came up with a recommendation, which is all I ever wanted. And so five years for five years.”

“Claude has a lot more connectors than Replit does, like native, right? Like, Replit, you have to build a lot of connectors.”

“We actually get an extra bonus model because when Claude on Opus talks to Replit on Sonnet, if it's a big feature, Replit brings in a sub-agent called the Architect. And the Architect, it turns out, runs on Codex and OpenAI.”

“I realized that our old Saster AI Day websites were still on Squarespace, not Replit, because we built it, you know, in 2020 and just kept refreshing it. So first I was like, okay, I've got to just move this from Squarespace to Replit, find the agent, and then…”

“He just instantly was so smug about moving us off of Hey Summit, and then he did it in an hour.”

“I'll build something in Replit as it is, right? And maybe do a little bit of design flourish in it, but I'll get it working, right? I'll get it working. The prototype or the V one. And then I'll just share the screenshot with Claude Design and say, it's okay, …”

“Now we've had, you know, hundreds of AI companies signing up and we just announced, you know, OpenAI, we announced Perplexity, we announced Replit.”

“After spending about 10 hours in Replit, I couldn't solve this big algo problem I solved in about 20 minutes in Fable and Opus, right?”

“Replit went from two million to five hundred million in two years.”

“They're pulling from the same APIs and the same sources of data, but they're making different recommendations.”

“I know Replit's hiring 250 sales reps this year, so that's going to look very much like a traditional organization.”

“In reality, actually, Reply users were like six months ahead of everyone else, even people in the labs, because when we launch these agents, a lot of times we get researchers messaging us, it's like, oh, we didn't know Claude was capable of running for, you kn…”

“I actually think engineers are laggards. Not all engineers, but like a lot of engineers are because they're kind of tied to their workflows.”

“We actually think ours is much better than Claude and many others on the market.”

“We have an agent internally at Replit that is constantly evolving Replit agent. What it does every night, it will look at all the traces of everyone that's interacting with Replit, analyzes them, finds, you know, things that are broken, sentiment issues, error…”

“The one other guy I can think of is the guy that was profiled by the New York Times. Who created Medvi. There's some controversy about that... I got on a call with him. He's a Rathlete user... He immediately writes either like a login for his vendors to kind o…”

“I think every company will have an Oracle internally, especially once we get to, like, the one billion contact link, and you put all the contacts of the company inside there, and the CEO can go to the Oracle, like, oh, Oracle, tell me how do I run this company…”

“Codex It does feel a little more technical than your lovable or your replet or your bolt. But if you can stay with it the output I think is super, super valuable.”

“Replit, if you have a complex feature, Replit builds it in Claude, Sonnet, not Open, it builds it in Sonnet to save money, and then it has Codex come in and check the work. It has both of them.”

“So using Claude and Replit, it took about two weeks to build out.”

“What Figma missed is I create this design. It's beautiful. I loop in the product team to approve it. And then I click a button, which it says push into full production prototype. And it just works. It works like, and you can, and the irony is Replit and Lovabl…”

“Bitter lesson adjacent is the fact that coding might be the shortest path to ASI and useful AI. Because if you're really good at coding, you can write yourself code to do anything.”

“He had turned down a billion dollars for Replit back when they had no cap, you know, they hadn't even made any revenue yet, because he had been grinding for 11 years before they made really much of anything”

“I remember when I told Peter Thiel that he should invest in the company and Peter said, it's never going to be a big company. This vibe coding thing is sort of ridiculous. And he put it in an email”

“Our AI VP of Marketing customer success together cost 257 dollars.”

“If you run them in the dev environment permanently, like we're doing, you get an extra agent that has an infinite context window and infinite history.”

“There's 5000 plus parking passes, each of which are individual. To each attending. And of which there's three different categories. One day, three days. And so this was weeks of man time before. And you're surprised you were able to get the agent to automate i…”

“Right now, Salesforce is our connective glue, right? We've talked about this many times, but it'd be even better since they're all built on Replit, if Replit could be the glue for the agents, right?”

“So it's funny, as a case study, Lovable and Replit, like, they're arch and arch competitors. They're about the same size, same growth, same everything, same, but they started totally differently.”

“The, it's actually a much safer environment to use one of these platforms that is contained.”

“I've one-shotted, the other day I one-shotted an app like Replit, a vibe coding tool, that spun up sandboxes, and you could vibe code web apps on your phone in one shot. It took an hour and 20 minutes to generate the code, and this was on 5.4.”

“And what we've noticed is that people that are getting the most value out of our product, Tend to be the more tech-adjacent ones. Maybe people, product managers have written code many years ago, but don't worry about the development environment setup. Don't wa…”

“So at some point in 20, 23 we just made it an explicit goal of like, we're not going after developers.”

“Like whoop is a is a client of ours. And they told us like, The amount of ideas they can try has grown by an order of magnitude, right? Like they used to, you know, get, get like a hundred ideas, but are able to only try five of them, but now they can try the …”

“The problem with SaaS is you onboard a new SaaS tool that creates a new silo of data that you can't really program. So now they're taking matters in their own hands and building things like, you know, quote configurators and being able to save the company hund…”

“I was talking to someone from Iceland yesterday, and he was telling me they're getting so much business because they're 60 to 70% cheaper and more effective than traditional agencies, and they're all Vibe coding on Replit.”

“If you're building a dev tools for non-developers, you have to go above and beyond on content. You have to produce a lot of video content as well.”

“Seven percent week of a week growth is like a very good way to bootstrap a new, new product line.”

“We got rejected from YC four, three or four times, and then we got invited to do YC because Paul and Sam saw us on Hacker News.”

“So I think perhaps Agent Five, or maybe sooner, you should be able to tell Replit, every day build me a SaaS company, and like, try to market it, and see what works, and make me some revenue.”

“At some point we screw that up and we had to do a reset and lay off and all of that stuff.”

“Already seeing that we actually have a team, like a Vibe Coding in Residence team at Replit, and they have a very vague mission, unlike like a product team or sales team or Very clear. Like go around the company, make it better.”

“They don't need to learn how to code. They need to learn how to create. They need to learn how to build.”

“Actually, at some point we were sending more tokens to Google than we were sending Anthropic, despite Anthropic being that kind of the core workhorse.”

“I don't think there's a moral issue per se. Like, I don't think they're using slave labor or anything like that to do that. I would have a security issue, especially since we have enterprise customers that, that depend on us for sensitive data and things like …”

“If I were to make a prediction, I would say that we'll still have engineers inside the organizations. Those engineers are responsible for more infrastructure, AI, ML embedded systems, you know, more, more, you know, low level engineering. And then you have pro…”

“And when they use Replit, the return on investment is as good, if not greater than product teams. With product teams, you're cutting down product development lifecycle, which is hugely valuable. With operations teams, you're actually being more efficient. You'…”

“We spent a lot of tokens on maintenance as much as we spent on creating that software.”

“We have some engineers use Replit, but the 75% are non-engineers.”