Replit

“This is exactly how Replik got started. It was just something that Amjad found interesting. It wasn't supposed to be a startup originally.”

“They're actually powering the customer support for Perplexity and Replit and Bolt and a bunch of other like top AI companies now.”

“Pretty soon, any model that you ask for at Replit, it'll be just available on your app directly. It will handle the billing and the API integration and all of that.”

“He talked about all the different things that are really unsolved, but in reality, we actually solved a lot of them.”

“And for Replit, and I'm sure a lot of other businesses to survive, at some point Replit needs to stop being focused on making applications and start being focused on solving problems with software.”

“Agents that can write code, ah, is actually the easy part. The hard part Is the infrastructure around it. Sometimes I call it the habitat for which the agent lives in.”

“So around, you know, late 23, early 24, we decided to put all our resources into agents.”

“Making sure that, because as you go longer, the, there's like an, ah, there's like a goal drift. The agent might start doing things that you don't like, but having those guardrails of testing along the way, ah, will make it so that it stays more coherent, ah, …”

“So at Replit, we built a fully transactional, reversible file system. So when you're on, on Replit, every edit you make to the file system is an atomic snapshot in time.”

“We're building, for the first time, we're building a, like a actual product team, product management team, and our product team is actually made of designers, engineers, and product managers, all, almost always in the same person. So we're trying to merge a lo…”

“It's like, it's 20 bucks a month, it's 50 bucks a month, but we know that in 10 years from now, they'll probably be able to drive down their raw materials lower, but we won't be able to command lower prices for those things, because it's just like within a rea…”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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.”

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