It's for people who want to learn how to code or want to prototype something absolutely as quickly as possible with the minimal amount of tooling and experience.
For sure. I'm just personally not sure that's a billion-dollar company idea myself, which if you've taken $100 million+ of funding, it will need to be. Definitely willing to eat my words though if they pull it off: anything that gets more people into programming and understanding how the devices they use work is a good thing in my opinion (which is worth about as much as you just paid for it!)
Learn to code then be an “excel jockey”. Those folks create just as much value with less of the identity bullshit.
Edit - sorry if this sounded confrontational. That wasn’t my intent - I just learned that I feel passionately about this topic.
The problems start when it is pushed beyond its limits, sheets can become undocumented mess of cell spaghetti which users still expect to scale up and grow new features indefinitely. It's hard to determine for Excel coders when they are past that cost/benefit tipover point and move up to a more robust set of programming tools.
Higher layers of abstraction can make sense; no code tools can be killer; but that isn't really replit. Replit is just a weird product on the side of the abstraction spectrum which requires its devs to understand a large chunk of what would be required to get, say, a nodejs server running on, say, Heroku.