Sat, Jul 12, 2025Effort-Based Pricing Recap
On June 18th, we enabled a new pricing feature called Effort-Based Pricing for all newly signed up Replit users. After monitoring usage for two weeks, we began rolling this feature out to the remaining users last week on July 2nd. In this post, we would like to share more about the rationale for the change, what we have observed so far, address some of our users’ concerns, and share how we are continuing to improve pricing. We are confident that the new Effort-Based pricing is the model that will best serve our users and enable more powerful AI tools to Replit members, however the transition to the new pricing model did not meet our standards for how we like to roll out major changes (we will discuss some examples of areas where we fell short). Therefore, we would like to offer $10 in free Replit credits to all Replit members who used the new pricing model as a way to show that we appreciate your feedback and your patience during this transition. This will automatically be applied to all active accounts that have used the new pricing model. There is nothing that users need to do to claim this credit. July 11th Incident: One example of where we fell short in our rollout of the pricing happened on July 11th between the hours of 11:26AM PDT - 5:43PM PDT. During this time, and due to an error in cost calculation, Replit checkpoint charges were being incorrectly computed and were often much larger than they should have been. After 5:43PM the fix was rolled out to production. This impacted approximately 6% of paying users. We have performed a thorough incident analysis, ensured that all charges related to the incident are refunded/credited, and have applied additional guardrails to make sure that this doesn’t happen again. We apologize for this July 11th incident and we thank our community members for helping us identify this issue. We were able to determine exactly who was impacted, by how much, and will automatically issue refunds or credits to any user that was impacted by this error. There is nothing that these users need to do to initiate the refund. The total cost of all impacted checkpoints will be reimbursed. Impacted users will also receive an email explaining what has happened. These refunds will be in addition to the additional $10 in credits that we are offering to all active Replit members who have been using the new Effort-Based Pricing.
Thu, Jun 6, 2024Announcing Replit Guides
Today, we are launching our first version of Replit Guides. Guides provide end-to-end content for learning new skills and building new applications. We are launching with an initial set of guides in partnership with some of the best in tech. Check out Replit Guides. Why Are We Launching Guides? Empower the next billion software creators. That’s the Replit mission. We continue to build an end-to-end development platform that allows people of all backgrounds, demographics, and skill levels to go from idea to software, fast. Platform updates and advances in our AI features are making Replit more powerful, while simultaneously lowering the barrier to entry.
Tue, May 21, 2024Using Replit to get our grandfather the daily baseball scores
A few weeks ago, I was having dinner with my in-laws, when my grandfather-in-law came marching over. I knew something was wrong. Mind you, he is not a complainer. He has a remarkable story. Born in Milwaukee. Military veteran. Worked in a meat-packing plant. Got into law school. Moved to California to teach at Stanford and practice law. Needless to say, when he has a problem, we listen. “I have a real conundrum. The SF Chronicle stopped including the baseball scores in the daily paper.”
Thu, Feb 22, 2024Experiment: Figma to Replit Plugin
Today we’re releasing an experimental Figma to Replit plugin. The plugin’s goal is to streamline the process from designing with pixels to prototyping with code — generating visually accurate, responsive, HTML, CSS, and React code from your designs. This was a Hack Week project by Replit Design, and we’re excited to give the community an opportunity to try it out. With this tool, you can now generate a Repl directly from your Figma design, and instantly share a static React app with your team. From there, you can use Replit AI to add functionality and tweak your design before deploying to production. This integration is all about enhancing your workflow, accelerating the prototyping process, and ultimately boosting developer productivity. Using the plugin Design your project: Begin by designing a component or page in Figma. You’ll want to follow these practices to get the most functionality with your export:
Wed, Dec 13, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their application on Replit Deployments, Replit is the best place to get from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. Lumiwealth The last thing financial traders want to do is spend hours learning how to set up a development environment just to deploy a trading algorithm. Why can’t writing code for a new algorithm be as easy as writing in a Google Doc? These were the questions Robert Grzesik had when starting his company Lumiwealth. With Replit, he could onboard hundreds of students into the real work of developing trading algorithms rather than lose much of his community in the complexity of setting up a development environment.
Wed, Nov 29, 2023Replit + Weights & Biases: Building a RAG Bot
Guest post by Weights & Biases Weights & Biases (W&B) provides AI developers with powerful tools to build better models faster and is used by almost every top LLM research lab today. To help support internal and external users, W&B built WandBot – a question-answering bot built on the robust llama-index library and the intelligence of OpenAI's GPT-4. By referencing documentation, wandb source code, and code examples, WandBot helps users onboard to W&B faster, and experienced users solve more advanced issues.
Wed, Nov 15, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their application on Replit Deployments, Replit is the best place to go from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. Pitches.ai For many startup founders, raising capital is a painful but essential part of their startup journey. Starting a pitch deck from a blank slate adds another daunting, time-consuming task to a long list of responsibilities. That’s why Keane Angle built Pitches.ai, a pitch deck editor that uses GPT-4 and hours of knowledge from 200+ pitch decks that raised $3B+ to help founders generate compelling pitches for investors and customers.
Fri, Oct 27, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their application on Replit Deployments, Replit is the best place to go from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. Sweet Dreams When Marwan’s younger brother was diagnosed with diabetes, his family was faced with a lot of new lifestyle changes and practices to ensure his brother’s well-being. One of the most important daily tasks is tracking his blood sugar level. If you or a loved one has diabetes, you know blood sugar level is one of the most important numbers to be tracking consistently throughout the day.
Tue, Oct 24, 2023How Replit is Empowering Global Developers - Akashdeep's Story
Our ambitious goal at Replit is to bring the next billion software creators online. This means looking beyond the United States, to developing countries like India and Nigeria, where much of the world’s young developer population resides. This is the story of Akashdeep, one such developer from India. A developer without a PC. A developer who earned more than his entire family through coding. A developer who hails from a farming family in rural India. Akashdeep currently studies in college in India. About a year ago, he began learning to code as a hobby and started using Replit. Like many developers faced with the high cost of PCs, Akashdeep relied on Replit Mobile to code and debug applications on his smartphone. He soon discovered Replit Bounties, a platform to hire freelance Replit software developers to code projects, and began to work on projects for others. Akashdeep earned over $1000 in the past couple of months and has a 5.0 out of 5.0 rating on Bounties, working on everything from a LinkedIn PDF parser (for a business built on Replit) to a dynamic website for an entrepreneur.
Mon, Oct 23, 2023Openv0: The Open-Source, AI-Driven Generative UI Component Framework
For any web or front-end developer, component generation is a manual and arduous process involving collaboration with designers. Components are the foundation upon which user interfaces (UI) are built, and generative AI is unlocking component creation for front-end developers, transforming a once arduous process, and aiding them in swiftly transitioning from idea to working components. By describing the interface they wish to build, developers can leverage openv0 to automatically produce Tailwind-powered UI code, using front-end frameworks like React & Svelte, and component libraries such as NextUI, Shadcn, and Lucide. These automation capabilities significantly reduce the manual workload on designers and engineers, making the development lifecycle (idea -> software) more efficient and streamlined, making it easier for developers to bring their UI designs to life. Replit is at the forefront of this transformation with our integrated IDE, AI tools, runtime, and deployment environment. Putting the spotlight on “openv0” from @n-raidenai A Replit Builder in the community was inspired by rising interest in generative interfaces and decided to create an open-source version named openv0 - which makes use of plugins that integrate Replit ModelFarm. The platform supports iterative development, allowing for real-time adjustments and rapid prototyping. This level of automation not only speeds up the initial component generation, but also eases the burden of component maintenance, which traditionally requires a collaborative effort between designers and engineers to uphold design systems.
Fri, Oct 13, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their application on Replit Deployments, Replit is the best place to get from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. AutomateNow Automation “experts” and agencies have become so popular that finding real experts has become difficult. AutomateNow is a website that lists and sources the best Zapier and automation experts worldwide. Whether you need an entire business process automated or your Zaps consolidated, this expert network is here to help.
Thu, Oct 5, 2023I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code. A few weeks ago, I built a Slack Bot that uses Google LLMs to provide daily channel summaries. You can fork the template or get started with 100 Days of Code. None of this was possible without Replit. Let me explain why: Getting started with no setup
Fri, Sep 29, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their production application on Replit Deployments, the businesses on Replit demonstrate that Replit is the best place for iteration and feedback cycles to carry a project from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. Superagent Superagent is an open-source framework that enables developers to integrate AI Assistants into any application in a matter of minutes. With Superagent’s library, you can build an AI assistant that browses the web, reviews pull requests, or executes code on your behalf.
Tue, Sep 26, 2023Superagent.sh on Replit: An open-source framework for creating AI-assistants
Demand for AI-driven solutions is surging, and using an AI-assistant is the fastest way to integrate AI into any product. Superagent’s assistants leverage large language models to understand human language, reason, and perform various tasks. In the spirit of “idea to software, fast”, superagent.sh used Replit to create an open-source, Agentic AI framework that enables any developer to integrate production ready AI Assistants into any application in a matter of minutes. Within 48 hours of Replit’s code-exec library release, superagent.sh added it to their core framework, deployed it (using Replit Autoscale), and created a Repl that enables anyone in the open source community to fork it, customize it, and deploy it themselves. What can Superagent.sh do? Superagent enables developers to create AI assistants for a wide range of tasks, including customer support, legal work, code reviews, content generation, and more.
Thu, Sep 14, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their time on Bounties, or a startup launching their production application on Replit Deployments, the businesses on Replit demonstrate that Replit is the best place for iteration and feedback cycles to carry a project from idea to product market fit. To prove this, we're sharing a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. Leap API - Headshot AI Add image, music, and other AI generations to your app in minutes with Leap's API and SDK. Leap launched “Headshot AI”, an app that allows you to generate a professional headshot in minutes. No need to schedule a professional headshot session for that perfect LinkedIn Photo. Just upload some of your existing photos to fine-tune the model to your face and get your professional results in minutes.