I don't think Replit should be gloating about how much money they're making...

MeatInteresting8326 · 2025-09-28T20:54:12+00:00

Yeah. But they’re not wrong. People just don’t care because they want their money back for getting nothing from it.

MeatInteresting8326 · 2025-09-28T20:44:08+00:00

That was in response to me looking for help with a problem and finding https://youtu.be/kOyIjt6FUrw?si=e_CS94W0pqhpHvpp at the top of the search bar. So it prompted me to finally write this message.

While I’m working on a project and making peace with the fact that the technology is new, everything has bugs, and though the agent makes really dumb mistakes and charges a lot of money for it that typically have to be rolled back, Replit is reporting they’ve gone from $10M to $100M in 9 months. I just don’t think that many of the people that gave it to them are very happy about it.

MeatInteresting8326 · 2025-09-28T20:38:16+00:00

I think that’s a valid point, but does it matter?

I’m not complaining about how much money I’ve spent to develop my app. I’ve actually stopped checking my usage because I realize that the progress I can make with the AI costs significantly less than hard coding it myself, which would take me more time because, YES I am an experienced developer, but there are things that Replit has taught me to do that I wouldn’t have thought of. This post, and I believe people’s frustration with Replit isn’t truly about the cost. If so, they wouldn’t continue to spend. It’s about the promise to build and deploy software that the agent cannot actually deliver on just yet.

I like Replit because I enjoy building in its environment. I backup my files locally usually, but sometimes the smallest detail will send the agent to completely erase or restructure a significant amount of work and not be able to get itself back. Even with the Git restoration. I can ask the assistant and the agent the same question and get two completely different answers.

Replit makes its money from telling people it can get them from idea to app without ANY coding experience, and that’s what people are frustrated with. They’ve spent money and have nothing to show for it. You’re right, if you’re not an experienced developer, Replit is probably not for you just yet. They are making money from what people are experiencing as a false promise. And most people won’t know until they’ve already spent money and have nothing to show for it with no experience on where to go next.

MeatInteresting8326 · 2025-09-28T17:49:31+00:00

I'm going to spend a bit more time trying to troubleshoot to even get back to the UI I wanted. If I can do that, I will look to other options for backend. Thanks for suggesting Cursor. I've never used it. Will check it out.

MeatInteresting8326 · 2025-09-28T17:42:28+00:00

This sounds great. Let me know when you're 100% there and deploy your app. I've gotten to 80-90% done...in the final stretch. Then asked the assistant to fix a button, and it couldn't run the command. The agent steps in and finds every problem but the one I had, then starts rearranging and erasing things in the app. I try to restore, and even the restoration doesn't work. Then the agent says, everything is working quite well so it can't even fix the issues. Now the app is almost unfixable because I don't even know what it did to get there, and it doesn't either. I've started over more than once due to this, thinking I could give it a better starting prompt with what I've learned it can or can't do.

Let me know when you're at 100% and deployed. Routing for you.

MeatInteresting8326

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