Week 1 in the Replit Builders community

Hey everyone. @AndrewJDavison here - it’s been a week since I tweeted about setting up a community for people building with Replit.

I’m glad I did! As of today, we’ve got 174 members in the group. I think that’s awesome!

If you’re not in the Slack yet, you can join here.

Plans for this newsletter

I figure the best use of this newsletter is to cover interesting discussions from the community, updates and news from Replit, resources and tips, and highlight interesting things being built on Replit.

Let’s get to it…

New from Replit

Replit just dropped the ability to paste a URL into the Replit Agent chat and have it instantly parse the content from the page or take a screenshot - and use that in the prompt

This makes it useful for two things:

• Asking Replit Agent to clone the look and layout of a site - something it’s suddenly got very good at in the last week!

• Giving Replit Agent access to whole developer docs without needing to copy and paste.

Replit tips

Replit offers a built-in Postgres database for all its projects (supplied by Neon), but they’ll use up some of your Replit usage credits.

You can get a free Postgres database via Supabase - and it has a better UI for managing the database as well.

Just create the database in Supabase then swap out all the corresponding secrets in your Replit project.

Community updates

I managed to convince two Replit staffers to join the group:

• Zhen Li who was the creator of the very first version of Replit Agent and is now on the core dev team.

• Matt Palmer who is head of developer relations and creates some great tutorials on Youtube.

I created a #feedback-bugs channel in the Slack. They’ll will be keeping an eye on the channel and I’ve promised semi-occasional email summaries to them. So please keep posting your thoughts and findings in there! (or write to support if it’s more urgent!)

Meanwhile, there have been some great discussions breaking out in the #building channel - like this one from Jason asking how people use Replit when building a project - one shot or iteratively?

Built on Replit

People have been sharing projects they built with Replit - here are a few good ones:

PodNudge

Built by Mark Mathson, PodNudge is a podcast search engine using the PodcastIndex API on the backend.

SalesTranscript

Built by Kenny Alami, it’ll analyze your transcripts or sales conversations and give you pointers on what you can improve.

AI Coloring Page Generator

Not shared in the group, but seen on Twitter, this lets you generate colouring pages and download them for $1. It’s already made a few sales.