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The era of 'soloware' & rapid prototyping
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I think this pair of tweets is a good call on where AI agents like Replit will take us.
On the business side, you’ve got a generation of companies that will move faster because it’s finally cheap to throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks.
And on the consumer side, you’ll see people reaching for Replit to solve their day to day problems rather than going to Google to find (and pay for) someone else’s.
I talked to the CEO of a moderately big tech co who said they'd replaced Figma with Replit. This surprised me because I don't even think of them as being in the same business. But he said Replit is so good at generating apps that they just to straight to prototype now.
— Paul Graham (@paulg)
12:32 PM • Jan 18, 2025
Here are some more thoughts on Paul Graham’s tweet.
What’s new with Replit
Not exactly an update, but it looks like a future where AI can use Replit Agent on your behalf is getting close. If you’ve got access to ChatGPT’s Operator, give it a try.
haha, i used @OpenAI operator build, deploy, and open source a tool on github using @Replit agent.
took about 30 min, here's an ~8 min supercut video
thoughts:
- while working with replit agent, it actually deployed the app, tested it, and described the error back to replit… x.com/i/web/status/1…— Yohei (@yoheinakajima)
8:29 AM • Jan 24, 2025
Also this tweet has me excited… hopefully by the time you’re reading this we know what it is.
The nights before a big ship(s)
— Amjad Masad (@amasad)
7:57 AM • Jan 29, 2025
Onto the stuff we know about - the official changelog notes a few little tweaks - Assistants + Workflows, quicker .zip downloads for projects and improvements to deployments (making them cheaper).
Useful & interesting
Replit Agent integrates with Slack now (and a bunch of other apps). You just mention it in your prompt and Agent takes care of the rest.
If you want to see this in action then Matt Palmer has a new tutorial. Build a dad joke bot and a PDF summariser.
Meanwhile, in this tutorial watch Avthar build a Youtube video summariser.
Built with Replit
Another week, another bunch of interesting stuff built with Replit.
And on the theme of soloware…
"Personal software" is the new norm.
I needed to add a "play" button to a few YouTube thumbnails (for a few places where I can't embed video). To my surprise, the online choices were dismal.
I whipped up a free tool with Agent + Assistant that supports bulk uploads, pulling… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— matt palmer (@mattppal)
2:00 PM • Jan 23, 2025
The power of personal software on Replit:
"A free tool that generates a FEMA-approved go bag shopping list, loads it into your Amazon cart, and lets you skip items you already own—so you only buy what you need."
Simple (simple != easy) apps that can change lives and improves… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— matt palmer (@mattppal)
6:33 PM • Jan 28, 2025
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