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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Tue, Aug 29, 2023Showcasing Startups on Replit
The fastest way to start, ship, and share This past year, our team has been hard at work releasing some of our most advanced infrastructure improvements including dedicated hosting and increased storage capacity. A second-order effect of a more powerful Replit is the rapid growth of businesses being built on the platform. The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit. The success stories emerging from our ecosystem serve as case studies for developers. Their architectural decisions, scaling strategies, and innovative solutions can provide insights for others looking to tread a similar path. Here are some of the newest startups deployed on Replit:
Wed, Jun 22, 2022Announcing the Replit Ventures 2022 (RV1) Cohort
With over 150 applications from +25 countries, the Replit Ventures 2022 (RV1) field was extremely competitive. Today, we are excited to welcome 13 teams. The teams offer a variety of geographies (9 different countries), missions (2 non-profit, 11 for-profit), and industries (e.g., Web3, Entertainment). For more information, read about each team below. 10 Academy 10 Academy identifies high-potential young people from anywhere in Africa and enables them to get a global-level job as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer or Web3 Engineer in less than 6 months. The founders are Yabebal Fantaye (@yabebalf) & Arun Sharma (a2sharma_). Chalc.io
Wed, May 25, 2022Announcing the Replit Ventures Builder Kit
A few weeks ago, we announced Replit Ventures. 12 teams from across the world will receive: A $10,000 grant Ten weeks of mentorship Expertise from guest speakers, including Y Combinator This is a 10x investment from our last Replit Ventures… but we did not stop there! Supporting creators & builders is core to Replit, but we are not the only ones that feel that way. Since the announcement, we have been working with best-in-class partners to provide a set of tools for our selected teams to build faster!
Wed, May 4, 2022Announcing Replit Ventures 2022
Apply to RV1 here Today, we are excited to announce Replit Ventures 2022 (aka RV1), and this year, we have huge news for our community: we are 10x’ing the program! Last year, we piloted the first Replit Ventures, and the results were enormous: 400+ applications in one week 6 teams selected $2,000 in Bitcoin or USD per selected team
Mon, Jul 5, 2021Our First Replit Ventures
Our first Replit Ventures was a tremendous success. Some of our teams were accepted into the best startup accelerators in the world while others had $1mm+ funding offers from top VCs. Before The Program Before joining Replit, I was working on my fintech startup, Blubbr. After a few small successes, Amjad reached out and asked me to write a guest blogpost (our product was built on Replit). We then started brainstorming ideas about how we can help other startups on Replit. After I told him I wanted to take a gap quarter (I hated online school), he asked me if I wanted to join the team and help other startups go to market. This is how Replit Ventures was born.
Wed, Jun 23, 2021[RV0] How a team of high schoolers built a tool to make machine learning easy
Hello! Today, we're announcing the beta launch of Kobra, a visual programming language for machine learning. A Kobra program using a machine learning model to diagnose breast cancer What are we doing? Why? Learning machine learning is hard. We're trying to fix that. Machine learning is playing an increasingly important role in our society, but very few people understand it. Even to programmers, it's portrayed as this super complicated wizardry that you need to have gone to graduate school to understand. However, we think that machine learning doesn't have to be incredibly complicated, and that it can be taught to anyone, even non-programmers.
Wed, Jun 9, 2021[RVO] How Nisawa is Enabling Reliable Delivery in African Cities
Can you imagine how you’d get a package or meal delivered to you if your house did not have a physical address? Now imagine how that would work if your local food delivery, postal, or parcel services were also ineffective, lacked the technology, or didn't exist at all. This is the reality faced by most businesses operating in African cities. For them, these aren’t hypothetical questions. They have to rely on informal, unreliable, unprofessional, and oftentimes frustrating ways to send goods to customers who desperately need them delivered. They typically resort to using individual, independent motorbike taxi drivers. They’d stop a random driver on the street, hand him the package, provide rough verbal directions and a phone number of the customer to call when nearby. These hacks pose many challenges including the lack of trust and professionalism (motorbike drivers are just independent individuals unaffiliated with any company), slow delivery speed (need for additional directions over phone calls), lack of appropriate delivery tools, and inability to track deliveries. For businesses, these challenges frequently lead to stolen, lost, or damaged packages and frustrations due to inefficiencies, awful customer experience as well as limitations on the type and value of the package they’d be comfortable sending through this approach. Informal delivery in Kigali, Rwanda. Here, a motorbike taxi driver is being used to carry the two packages in blue and red. He has been given verbal directions and will be calling the sender and receiver to continuously receive directions to the drop-off location. After personally facing these challenges, we set out to create Nisawa, an on-demand, last-mile delivery service with the goal of enabling businesses in African cities to reliably deliver goods to their customers.
Tue, Jun 8, 2021[RV0] How we used focus and prioritization to transform our student-run startup
Running a successful startup is like driving a nail through a thick piece of wood. You can hammer as hard as you want, but without a sharp nail–extreme focus and a specific target–you’re not going anywhere. Coming into Replit Ventures (RV0), our situation mirrored the analogy above. We were wildly passionate and worked 24/7, but we found ourselves intrinsically limited by a lack of focus in our product. RV0 made us realize this, and radically transformed our startup into a hyper-focused business solving a clear pain point for a sizable market. What is our startup, PetCode? We’re a pet-tech company providing users with a smart pet tag for smarter pet care. With our QR tag and mobile app, we help owners keep their pets safer and streamline their pet management experience. PetCode was started in May 2020, when COVID-19 closed schools and forced us to transition to online learning. We didn’t do much learning at school, and instead spent our time looking for a business idea. As pet owners, we noticed that the metal tags our pets wear are surprisingly archaic. These tags rust, fade, and store just 50 characters of information–that’s less than one-fifth of a tweet. Even worse, the only way to change the information on a pet tag is to buy a new one–they’re not updateable.
Thu, Jun 3, 2021[RV0] How we gameified exploratory CS with Tech Roulette
We're Execute Big, a CS education non-profit org, and as three-person strong team, our mission is to give every student the chance to explore and experience CS education. We've been bringing unique programs to students across the country, and the move to virtual programs sparked a little creativity in us — after all, virtualization has made education more accessible than ever. That's why we've worked hard as a part of Replit Ventures to bring you Tech Roulette, a free game for the summer where you (and 500 students AKA new friends) get the chance to take a leap into fields of technology through a variety of random intro projects while earning rewards and prizes — all within your free time. Each week, you'll receive an email that your portal is ready, and you'll see three random projects for you to choose from for the week, ranging from hardware projects, like building a real-life "Simon Says" toy, to data science projects, like creating an algorithm to predict who'd survive on the Titanic. On top of weekly projects, you're welcome to join in on community-wide speaker sessions and coffee chats with industry professionals. Join the game and invite your friends (some friendly competition never hurt!) at techroulette.xyz. P.S. Are you a seasoned tech pro who wishes Tech Roulette was around when you were a kid? Sign up to mentor and chat with students here.