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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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