Wed, Apr 3, 2024Replit Developer Day recap
On April 2nd, we hosted our second annual Developer Day live from San Francisco. We announced our biggest evolution yet – we’re making the power of Replit available for teams. Here’s the full recap. Our mission Replit’s mission is to empower the next billion software creators. We are at an incredibly unique time in history, where for the first time, anyone with basic access to a computer and the internet can learn skills that can fundamentally change their lives. This kind of wealth creation opportunity has not existed before. Soon, what it means to be a software developer is going to look radically different than it does today. Replit is not just for hackers and engineers; we also want to empower builders of all kinds: artists, scientists, and citizen developers. If you have an idea, you should be able to build it and ship it. Empowerment is at the heart of our mission.
Fri, Dec 1, 2023Advent of Code on Replit
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Advent of Code! Advent of Code is a month-long programming challenge with a new daily puzzle you can solve in any programming language. For many, Advent of Code is an excuse to learn a new programming language or practice a familiar one. No matter what programming language you choose to tackle the puzzles in, Replit is the easiest way to run your code. Here’s your guide to using Replit for AoC. Why choose Replit for Advent of Code Replit requires no installation or setup to get started with any language. Just select the language template and start coding directly in your browser. It supports most languages, from Python to Haskell, and even esoteric ones like LOLCODE. Execute your code using the Run button, or the built-in Shell. When you’re finished writing your code, check the output of your program quickly in the Console. If you get stuck, you can use the Multiplayer feature to share your code with a friend and ask for help.
Wed, Oct 4, 2023Bring Your Idea to Production Event Recap
Last week, the SF builder community gathered for an exciting evening at the Andreesen Horowitz office. The mission? Helping developers go from idea to software, fast. The Replit team was onsite to assist in evolving their prototypes into fully-fledged web apps, made production-ready with Replit Autoscale and Reserved VM Deployments. At the end of the night, there were 15 standout project demos. Here's a sneak peek into some that caught our attention: Spotlight projects Unfathom AI: This team showcased a tool designed to craft generative worlds for video games, complete with a 3D avatar of our CEO, Amjad Masad. They deployed their static site with one click using Replit Static Deployments.
Mon, May 8, 2023Recapping the SPC-Replit AI Hackathon
This is a guest post by South Park Commons. SPC is a community of 500+ builders, technologists, and domain experts with locations in San Francisco and New York City. The recent SPC-Replit AI hackathon brought together talented builders from the SPC community and Replit network to show off their technical chops and creativity by building cutting-edge AI applications. Participants had a week to develop a working demo that incorporated AI in some capacity and was built on Replit. From meal planning to baby-AGI's and even a bot that points out logical fallacies, these projects are proof of the limitless potential of AI. Check out the individual project highlights below! Dialectic - Improving Conversational Health - 1st Place 🥇 Team: Somudro Gupta & Casey Caruso
Thu, Mar 30, 2023Applications of Generative AI Webinar
In case you missed it, last week we hosted legendary AI Researcher Jim Fan from NVIDIA AI for an incredible discussion on all things Generative AI. During a one-hour conversation with Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, and Michele Catasta, Replit's ML Advisor, the group discussed the recent advancements in AI and the potential impact of multi-modality on the field. Event Recap Jim Fan has worked in AI for a decade and has collaborated with several prominent AI researchers. He highlights the growth of AI from image recognition to large language models like GPT-4. Amjad shares his background in developer tools and his excitement about applying machine learning and statistical approaches to code. 2:50 - The discussion starts with the recent NVIDIA GTC event, with Jim describing NVIDIA's transition from a hardware provider to an enterprise-focused AI provider. He is mainly excited about NVIDIA AI Foundations, which offer customization services that allow enterprises to create unique use cases with multimodal language models. These models will also help incorporate images, videos, and 3D data into AI systems. 5:45 - Michele highlights the importance of multi-modality and how it grants superpowers in communications with computers. Jim envisions a range of possibilities with multi-modal language models, including being able to interact with more natural human input, enhancing note-taking, and automating home decoration plans.
Mon, Feb 20, 2023Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon Winners
The Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon was Replit’s very first machine learning-focused hackathon that took place on February 4-11, 2023 with participants selected from all over the world! After applying and being accepted into the hackathon, participants hacked for seven days on their projects, using both custom machine learning models and fine-tuning existing ones, all by combining the power of Weights & Biases and Replit. During the hackathon, builders collaborated and got help from mentors on our Discord (shout out to Morgan and Ayush!), worked through examples and demos from the opening ceremony and our list of resources, and even documented their journeys using W&B Reports. In the end, we gave away over 500,000 Cycles worth of prizes to the best projects created by combining the two technologies. Expert ML engineers from Weights & Biases judged each project to decide the ultimate winners: And the winners are...
Wed, Jan 25, 2023It's Genuary!
You may have thought that we're in the month of January, but we're actually in the month of Genuary! Genuary "is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things." If you've been a part of the Replit community for a little while, you may remember Replit Creates, our very own month-long celebration of creative coding that happened in August. We don't think making beautiful things should be confined to one month, so we've decided to host a celebration of Genuary on Replit. On the official Genuary website, there are prompts for each day of the month, so we're also celebrating on Replit! Our Replit staff have made it even easier for you to participate by creating templates for some of the prompts, which you can find below.
- Tue, Jan 10, 2023
Apply for Replit’s first Machine Learning Hackathon
We’re extremely excited to announce Replit’s very first Machine Learning Hackathon, in partnership with Weights and Biases! If you’re interested in joining the waitlist, head over to the official site. Weights and Biases is a machine learning platform that tracks everything you need to make your models reproducible – from hyperparameters and code to model weights and dataset versions. If you’ve never worked with W&B, check out this example Repl for an introduction! The total prize pool is over 500,000 Cycles – there are multiple opportunities to win, with prizes for Best Weights & Biases Report, Best Repl, an Honorable Mention, and of course, the Grand Prize of 300,000 cycles.
Thu, Nov 24, 2022Announcing Replit Reps Cohort 2
Applications are now open for the Spring 2023 cohort of Replit Reps, which will kick off in February 2023! For those who aren't familiar, Replit Reps are Replit’s community ambassadors. They’re passionate about making programming fun, accessible, and exciting! They enjoy making awesome projects and sharing their skills. They believe that Replit and coding is for everyone, and that anyone should be able to make something great in a judgement-free zone. Plus, they’re excited to work with our team. Being a Replit Rep is an exclusive opportunity to connect with the Replit team, builders who use Replit, and other leaders outside of your own communities. It's super fun to be a Rep, but it also comes with a lot of responsibility - you'll be a role model for your community, as well as for new folks building on Replit. As a Rep, you'll teach and share Replit through events and content creation - we'll support you in growing skills you're interested in, but you can use any format you prefer - livestreaming on your YouTube channel, sharing on social media, publishing your repls to Community, or whatever else floats your boat!
Sun, Jul 31, 2022Template Jam 2022 — Phase 2 Winners
We are now finished calculating the winners for the second phase of the contest using a super-secret formula that measures community reception! You can check out all the phase 1 winners here, which were hand-selected by a group of judges. Phase 2 Winners—$5000 We are proud to announce the following templates as winners of the second phase of Template Jam 2022, as decided by the community! Note: we made a couple corrections as we found out a couple of the templates did not run
Thu, Jul 14, 2022Kajam 2022 Winners
What’s Kajam? Kajam is Replit’s official game jam where members of our community build games, play games, and sometimes even win cash prizes for their games in the span of a single week! This year, from June 25th to July 2nd, Replit spiced things up with a grand prize of $10,000, category prizes of $5,000, and a new Crowd Pleaser prize of $1,000. The catch? The games had to meet the theme: SPICY! During the jam, participants collaborated and got help from mentors on our Discord, audiences sampled and judged the games for themselves, and some players even documented their journeys! In the end, we received over 190 awesome submissions this year, battling to win the grand prize! But only one could beat the heat. Our judges (PolyMars, CodeWithHarry Metal and Coffee, Ania Kubow, MindJoy, Tiga Wu, Lee Fleming, Vimlark) carefully reviewed each game to decide the ultimate spicy winners… This year’s winners: Most Creative - SpicyBoyTimeToShine
Mon, May 30, 2022Announcing Kajam 2022! Here's how to get started...
We are stoked to announce Kajam 2022 - Replit's second annual game jam! If you're interested in registering head right on over to the official Kajam site. This year, we're leveling everything up - including the prizes. The total prize pool is over $35,000 and will be split up amongst 7 different prizes. Kajam registrants will have 7 days to hack together the best dang game they can dream up. How do I participate? To start off, you'll need to register for Kajam which you can do here. Kajam will officially take place from June 25th to July 2nd. Once you're done with the final touches on your game, you'll need to make sure it's submitted. To submit your game, you'll need to do two things. First, post the repl of your game to replit.com/community with the hashtag #Kajam2022. Once posted, you'll also need to submit your game through the submission form on the official jam site. Your game must be submitted by 11:59 PM PST on July 2, 2022. When the hackathon ends and all games are submitted, we'll give the judges 3 days to choose winners. The judges will be choosing winners based on the prize categories listed on the jam site. Be sure to tune in to our closing ceremony livestream on YouTube on July 9 to hear us announce the winners live!
- Sun, May 15, 2022
Template Jam 2022
Since we introduced templates, many of you have asked to get in on the action. We have some amazing community templates already, but we want to get everyone involved. We've been hard at work revamping both the templates page and publishing flow so that everyone can create and publish a template. We're rolling this out over the next week, so keep your eyes peeled! To celebrate this new release, on May 23rd, we're bringing Template Jam back. This time there will be $10,000 USD in prizes and you'll have the power of Nix behind you. We're excited to see all the wonderful templates you create, and brand new ways for people to create on Replit. What are templates and how do I make one?
Tue, Mar 8, 2022Hack Week 2022 Recap
Hey, everyone! I’m sure you all heard about the infamous, annual Replit Hack Week, but what exactly is it? Every year, we come together as a team to brainstorm, hack, and push the limits of our platform to set the tone for the year. During the first Hack Week last year, our team integrated Nix into Replit which transformed how we do infrastructure, packages, and languages. Nix also allows users to configure Replit to suit their needs. In line with our purpose for Hack Week ‘22, the theme for the year is “Community and Extensibility”.
- Thu, Dec 23, 2021
2021 Kajam Winners
Kajam Winners It was a dark room with mystique and seriousness that accompanied the feverous whispers. Seven people stood in the room, held down only by the weight of responsibility they carried with them. One by one they were handed a link to a website- what they would find they did not know. And one by one the links were opened. Colors and music filled the empty air. Excitement gleamed in each of their eyes, their fingers danced across the keyboard, their mouse moved sporadically as though if it stayed still for too long they would surely meet their doom. And yet after another moment, the link was closed, and the display subsided. Each individual scribbled something down, and the cycle repeated four hundred times. After days of deliberation, the people consulted each other and wrote one final list. The list was placed in a red envelope, stamped with a wax seal of the Replit logo. The doors to the darkroom opened, and the individuals left. Leaving the letter behind. Today we will enter that room and open the red envelope, to announce the winners of the 2021 Kajam Game Jam! What was Kajam? Starting October 18th, the Kajam game jam began. On October 25th, Kajam ended. During that time, people rushed to create a game relating to the theme "HUGE". People could interpret that however, they wanted- and we certainly had a lot of unique interpretations. Our seven judges voted on the submissions for each of the seven awards that we had. Most Creative, Best Story, Most Polished, Most Hilarious, Most Theme-fitting, Best Kaboom Game, and of course the grand prize Most Fun. All the categories were worth $1,000, except for the grand prize. The grand prize was worth a whopping $10,000 U.S. dollars.