Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by cercatrova on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:48PM (#18276699)

I'm disappointed that now you need to sign up on www.repl.it rather than just spinning up a test environment, definitely cuts down on usage. I've found a workaround with www.http://repl.it/languages/python3 for example, but I'm not sure how long this will still be active given their plans to become a full-fledged IDE.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:25PM (#18276995)

We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting).

You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the langauges.

As for our plans to become an IDE: we've given ourselves the hard task of being a REPL-first IDE and to always load in under 2 seconds. More here: https://repl.it/blog/platform

For the landing page: we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways so we've emphasized that. You can still get to the languages in the footer.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by solarkraft on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:01PM (#18278463)

> we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways

This baffles me. Why? Don't people just want to mash something into a REPL quickly (step in between: write the first one or two letters of the language you want to use and press enter)? That's certainly how I use it ...

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:02PM (#18278952)

Oh most people will google "repl.it ruby" and get to that directly.

We also just discussed this and we're adding a language selector on the homepage.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by _sword on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:30PM (#18277037)

Congrats on the fundraising and the momentum Amjad!

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:41PM (#18277136)

Thank you!

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by hayaodeh2 on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:22PM (#18277505)

You can always use Repl.it as anon, we found out that many people lose their work and forget to create accounts. If you create an account you'll always be logged in and it won't cut down on usage IMO. Happy to hear your thoughts.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by bharris62 on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:08PM (#18276860)

I think it has always been like that, if you scroll to the bottom you can click on what environment you want to load. Been like that awhile I think.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by cercatrova on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:59PM (#18278922)

Before you got the drop down on the front page that you now see on repl.it/languages. I admit I didn't look too hard at the list of languages that are there now, but just that one change to sign up instead of dive into the repl was a little annoying.

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