Replit

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “i liked replit and growapps the most they make mobile and web deploy easy”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “experimenting with **Replit Agent** for turning rough ideas into working prototypes”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “build a lead gen mini-site in Replit in ten minutes that was better than I have ever had an engineering team build”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “I replit'd a travel-site since yesterday: ~8-ish hours: front-end, back-end, auth, mapping, geo-coding, points-of-interest, planning, image carossels, weather-integration”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “I used replit for some vibe-ish coding for a little bit and really liked that I could easily prompt and view output on my phone when hanging out away from my computer”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-08

• “replit remains to be simply the worst in my opinion. I struggle to do anything useful with it except trivial hello world type of stuff.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-09

• “I definitely was told by support that my [personal] email couldn't connect to my [consulting] GitHub email account. I re-arranged quite a lot of my tech life to connect the two, per Replit support.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-12-09

• “I really like Replit for certain things. Having said that, based on my experience, I would characterize it as an amazing tool for rapid frontend iteration with prototype-level backend creation.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-07

• “Replit gets a total fail for me because the AI integration took the homework assignments I was giving my students, read the instructions to them, and then did their homework for them! There wasn't a way to turn it off when I talked to support, so I just had to tell my students "pretend you didn't see that". We moved off of Replit asap, after that.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-05

• “burnt through way too many expensive tokens on Replit and Claude”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-12-05

• “I used to use Replit to teach code (even integrated it into discussion sections when I was a TA)”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “I've been vibe-coding it over the last few months using Replit, it's been a really cool experience”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-11-27

• “I opened Replit and was confused to find the file browser completely hidden. All I saw was a chat window, just another agentic coding interface similar to many others”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-14

• “Replit and Gemini failing to handle the subtle differences between node and deno when it comes to serving HTTP requests”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-09

• “I really liked replit for having probably the best integrated IDE on a phone. Everything was so smooth and well thought out.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-14

• “I still have fun with Replit as an easy way to spin up Nix based coding environments. Replit seems to offer something for everyone.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-03

• “Replit + Cursor solution is actually better in the sense that it looks better, and works better because the agent did some bits a bit more nicely than I did with Cursor”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-25

• “Replit is a cash grab. It couldn't build a basic app with Three.js without stepping on itself.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-21

• “I built this game with Replit almost instantaneously. It was a breath of fresh air to build something so quickly”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-18

• “I'll just throw it into Replit or Claude Code to see what it comes up with and then decide if I want to pursue it further”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-05

• “tools like Replit and Codex, which helped me bridge the gaps in my own coding abilities”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-06-22

• “Only one I've built something that actually works (but only tried Replit, Lovable and Databutton)”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-19

• “it didn't work. Hitting enter to add the item did nothing. I chatted to it and explained. It confidently did a few revisions but didn't fix it. It started adding logging and asked me to paste in the logs. After each subsequent paste it would say some variation of "ah I see the problem" and revise again. After the third time, I didn't reply with the console logs and instead suggested we change tack. Replit completely ignored my input and carried on talking as if I was following instructions "yes I see the issue now, ok I've fixed it" It was just a string of hallucinations, pretending to take user input but it fact not doing so. In the end I started asking it completely off topic questions but it had an imaginary convo with me instead. I gave up.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-05-24

• “Want to learn coding ? Build out your app idea first with replit”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-20

• “I did most the front end myself and was hoping Replit and cursor could help, but I haven't had success.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19