Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by rwmj on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:33PM (#27424530)

How did Replit manage to raise $20m for something as trivial as "a webapp you can use to run code online in different programming languages"? I assume that it's something a bit more than that?

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by cmsj on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:44PM (#27428238)

I guess the cynical answer would be: because there is so much VC money out there, you can probably get funding for just about anything.

I'm off to work on a pitch deck for coding bootcamps for cats.

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by abarrettwilsdon on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:46PM (#27428838)

6m users¹? Smooth and sharable UX? Effective abstractions over many parts of the DevOps stack?

This comment has quite the Dropbox 'build such a system yourself quite trivially' comment energy

¹ https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1394002500508807168

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by rwmj on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:47AM (#27433235)

> 6m users

Is the plan to lose money on each user until they reach profitability? How do they plan to make money?

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