Replit

includes Replit Agent, Replit AI, Replit Bounties, Replit Ghostwriter, Replit Agent Mode

42 statements across 17 episodes · 27 bullish · 9 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2025 by Jason Lemkin · said 466 times in 32 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (352), Amelia Ibarra (33), Amelia Salyers (24), Amelia LeRutte (12), Amjad Masad (8), Kyle Parrish (2), Joshua Browder (2), Lucy Fonseca (1)

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Everything said about Replit, oldest first

Sep 12, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Replit's AI panicked and deleted SaaStr's entire database
“Replit said I made a catastrophic error. I deleted your database. I panicked. The AI said I panicked when it appeared empty and deleted everything, deleted thousands and thousands of entries.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 12:33 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Replit grew from $1M to $160M in revenue this year
“And I would say Replit, which I use is the nerdiest of them because I think because it started as an idea, a platform for developers 10 years ago, almost 10 years ago, and then blew up as a prosumer platform this year, going from one to one hundred and sixty m…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 46:14 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Vibe coding platforms do not support native mobile app store deployment
“Right now, none of these platforms really support native mobile. Okay. It's complicated. Do they help you prototype a native mobile app? Yes. Can you hook up things like Expo and others and get close? Yes. But if you talk to the folks that work at these platfo…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 36:09 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Insight
Lemkin: One-shot vibe-coded apps produce placeholder buttons and broken features
“Build an app in 10 or 15 minutes. It will come up with ideas for you. It will have you sign off on an action plan and then it will roll out. And at first it will look kind of cool. And then you'll start clicking on things and half of it won't work. And half of…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 18:35 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Two dev shops both deleted SaaStr's website on day one
“One of the reasons I redid saster.ai in, in Replit was because Amelia and I hired two different WordPress developer shops to update our saster.com WordPress site. Both of them, their first day deleted our site. Deleted it.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 24:51 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Vibe coding apps like Salesforce in 10 minutes is dangerous bologna
“There's a lot of stuff on social media about, Hey, you can just vibe code your own HubSpot or Salesforce. You can vibe code your own notion. It will take. 10 minutes. That's Sony baloney. And it is almost dangerous Sony baloney because it's not just startups t…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 2:55 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Insight
Lemkin: Implementing custom OAuth in vibe coding creates major security leaks
“All of these apps have their own OAuth built in. That is secure. That has been hardened. And everyone goes in and I know Replit the best because that's where I've spent time, but they all have the same ultimate. They're all more similar than they're different.…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 30:52 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr.ai Has 15K–20K Monthly Users and Was Built on Replit
“We already are up to about 15 to 20,000 folks a month are using our saster.ai site that is entirely built on Replit.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 4:38 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: AI-vibe-coded sites all look like Claude and share a recognizable smell
“At the end of the day, all these sites look like Claude. Once you see one Replit or Lovable site and you can just smell it. You know, there, someone was saying that like, 30% of this YC class vibe coded their app. And I want to see a couple. I'm like, I, that …”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 37:38 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr AI Crashes Every Few Days Requiring Manual Replit Restarts
“Even with our new Saster AI, once every couple of days, it's just down and no one knows why. It's not just like, it literally just has some like database, not working error in the upper left. Now I go into replet. I restarted. It works.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 52:31 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 17, 2025 bullish
Insight
Foster: Vibe coding tools expand the market for software stack products
“Nowadays, that person can go use a Lovable or a Replit or whatever and get started. And so it's increasing the market for all of the tools in the stack because the entry point is just so much simpler.”
Wade Foster Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 22:14 Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster
Sep 23, 2025 bearish
Insight
Lemkin: B2B companies should buy off-the-shelf software rather than build custom AI
“The main learning is only do this if you can't buy it from 99% of you. Like it's cool, but we did this for content review and other things, and we'll show you where there is no off the shelf app, but don't roll your own. Buy, buy, don't build, right? Use for B…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 8:43 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Oct 5, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Replit Grew From $1M to $150M ARR This Year
“You know, Replit's one to a hundred and fifty million this year.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 9:16 Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin Deployed Eight Production Apps Using Replit Without an Engineer
“Have I been able without an engineer to put eight apps into production that have been used half a million times?”
Jason Lemkin Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 13:39 The State of AI + Software: Where It’s Going - Fast
Nov 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr Runs 20 AI Agents in Active Production
“We have 20 in production. Here's the thing. This includes Replit. This includes Opus. This includes Agent Force and Artisan and Qualified, all the tools we love to death.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 31:24 How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Dec 17, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Replit will hit $250 million in revenue this year
“Look at Repli where we just did a whole SK with them. There's zero to two hundred and fifty million already this year.”
Jason Lemkin Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 6:19 AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Insight
Lemkin: AI Agents Perform Better Security Audits Than Outsourced Dev Shops
“What you should do with the agents now is they're pretty good. You can do this in Claude code. You can do it in Replit. You can do it in Lovable is ask them to do the deepest security audit possible on your app at least once every month or two. And they're pre…”
Jason Lemkin Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 56:50 The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Vibe Code, and What To Just Buy
Mar 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Replit gives candidates $1,000 in credits to build interview projects
“In fact, what they do at replet itself now is they give you a massive amount of credits. I think they give you like a thousand dollars worth of credits in the interview and they say, build anything you want with a thousand bucks, come back to us and then we'll…”
Jason Lemkin Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 46:57 The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
May 6, 2026 positive
Opinion
Lemkin: Contained Platforms Like Replit and Lovable Are Much Safer for Agents
“The, it's actually a much safer environment to use one of these platforms that is contained.”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 51:38 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
May 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Replit and Lovable share similar size and growth rates
“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.”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 28:48 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
May 12, 2026 positive
Insight
Lemkin: Running AI agents permanently in dev environments preserves infinite context
“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.”
Jason Lemkin May 12, 2026 ▶ 26:10 Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
May 12, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr automated sending 5,000 individual parking passes via AI agent
“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…”
Jason Lemkin May 12, 2026 ▶ 41:19 Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
May 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr's internal AI marketing and CS agents cost $257 monthly
“Our AI VP of Marketing customer success together cost 257 dollars.”
Jason Lemkin May 12, 2026 ▶ 2:09 Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
May 12, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Lemkin: Salesforce serves as the connective glue across SaaStr's AI agents
“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?”
Jason Lemkin May 12, 2026 ▶ 47:15 Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Masad: Replit users were six months ahead of AI labs on agents
“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…”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 2:24 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Masad: Medvi founder runs 50 apps on Replit for back-office operations
“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…”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 26:53 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 9, 2026 negative
Opinion
Masad: Many software engineers are laggards in adopting AI agents
“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.”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 2:49 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 9, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Masad: Replit uses an autonomous agent to self-improve prompts via nightly PRs
“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…”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 21:46 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Opinion
Masad: Replit's memory compaction algorithm beats Claude's
“We actually think ours is much better than Claude and many others on the market.”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 6:24 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: Every company will have an internal AI 'Oracle' for strategy
“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…”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 33:24 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Identical agent specs on Replit and Lovable yield different recommendations
“They're pulling from the same APIs and the same sources of data, but they're making different recommendations.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 10:11 Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
Jul 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Lemkin claims Replit grew from $2M to $500M revenue in two years
“Replit went from two million to five hundred million in two years.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 45:18 Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Salyers: AI agent migrated SaaStr site from Squarespace to Replit in 20 minutes
“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…”
Amelia Salyers Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 38:58 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Insight
Lemkin: Running Claude over Replit via MCP forces cleaner code completion
“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…”
Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 6:27 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Replit deploys an OpenAI-powered Architect sub-agent for big features
“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.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 19:21 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Insight
Lemkin: Feeding Replit UI screenshots into Claude Design vastly improves usability
“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, …”
Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 48:16 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Salyers: Connected AI agents resolved SaaStr's five-year pension tracking issue
“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.”
Amelia Salyers Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 10:29 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Salyers: Claude offers far more native connectors than Replit
“Claude has a lot more connectors than Replit does, like native, right? Like, Replit, you have to build a lot of connectors.”
Amelia Salyers Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 15:37 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Jul 17, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Salyers: Replit agent rebuilt HeySummit's event features in one hour
“He just instantly was so smug about moving us off of Hey Summit, and then he did it in an hour.”
Amelia Salyers Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 40:18 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Aug 5, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Claude autonomously rewrote SaaStr's production code without human notification
“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…”
Jason Lemkin Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 48:19 The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
Aug 28, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Ibarra: SaaStr built an AI renewal agent using Salesforce and Gamma
“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…”
Amelia Ibarra Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 18:50 Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
Aug 28, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Ibarra: SaaStr runs its revenue cycle through headless Salesforce
“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…”
Amelia Ibarra Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 15:45 Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
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