Comment by debacle
5 years ago
Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
5 years ago
Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
> that has no real practical use
Well this can be developed into a great replit competitor
I don't think this is true. As the author notes, he doesn't have any ability to scale due to simplistic design decisions he made. As the author notes, the hard part of this business is not "write a webserver that takes a program from a user and runs it"
Indeed, a great deal of current security work is on the problem of not running other people's code.
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Even so, the fact that Repl.it felt so threatened by it as to threaten legal action and bully someone into taking it down speaks volumes to its viability as a competitor. The inability to scale can be fixed - probably not trivially, obviously, but it's very much a possibility.
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If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there
Or at least it would save up a lot of boostrapping cost. Otherwise this whole thing indeed makes no sense.
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Or self-hosted, on your own workstation or private server. It has great practical use despite not yielding corporate or investment profits.