I’ve been poking around this app despite not knowing much about coding, and found the interface to be surprisingly intuitive. Within minutes I created a nice looking spoof website from an open-source template, and for the most part it’s obvious what sort of things I can do. I would really appreciate a tutorial for beginners or at least some indication of what more technical words mean (what is “repls”? What does “shell” do?), but I understand that I’m not the target audience here and most who use the app will already know such things. Regardless, for the most part I’m finding the experience to be quite intuitive. Kudos to the developers for making a coding interface so friendly to newcomers!

I’ve decided to cancel my subscription not because I believe Replit is a bad platform, but because I find a specific policy to be unfair and frustrating. Replit offers a lot of great tools for developers, especially for beginners and those working on small-scale projects. However, the way the credit system is handled doesn’t sit well with me. When you pay for a yearly subscription, there’s a reasonable expectation that certain core services like keeping your deployed website live should remain uninterrupted. Unfortunately, once you exhaust your monthly credits, your live site is taken down until you purchase additional credits. I understand limiting access to advanced features or blocking new deployments and edits when credits run out, but removing an already-deployed site from public view seems excessive and counterproductive. It feels more like a penalty than a fair limit, especially for users who have paid in advance for an entire year. A deployed site should remain online regardless of whether or not you can make changes to it until your next monthly credit cycle begins. I hope Replit considers adjusting this policy in the future, because the platform has so much potential but this kind of disruption can be a dealbreaker for many users.

I wanted to love this app and it is a legitimate app, its not a scam app, but their business practices are a scam. When you use the agent, it charges whether the agent does what you ask or not. You only get a certain amount of uses per month. Then theres all this shady fine print stuff. I purposely didn’t give my credit card and paid a monthly subscription so that I wouldn’t be charged more once I used up the monthly stuff that comes with the subscription, which is $26 by the way. So after I ran out of my $25 worth of service last month, it just charged me $2.84 even though I didn’t authorize it. Then they charged me for the next month for the entire subscription, but I still can’t use it because they can’t figure out how to deduct the $2.84 from this month, or get the app to stop charging you at its limit. It seems like scammy behavior to get you to add a credit card. I don’t have my credit card because I I’m not good at monitoring that kind of stuff and I don’t want it to accrue charges beyond the monthly subscription as they purposely set it up to take advantage of that. Their support will just cut and paste the terms to you, so they dont have to help you. Sucky company.