Comment by detaro
5 years ago
It's not something you do in "essentially a day" if you want it be secure and reliable. (E.g. the example toy project they link literally just runs python directly on the server: https://github.com/raxod502/python-in-a-box/blob/master/serv... - you'll need to stop doing that very quickly if public). The parts of their stack that repl.it has put on their own Github looks loads more valuable (and I assume are also not covering some of those core problems)
Which makes the reaction weird.
>Which makes the reaction weird.
Consider that funders and investors like the parent reply will say "huh, that's so easy it isn't worth that much money" and it won't be that weird.
With a view that shallow, tons of well-funded tech companies are "easy", and get funding and success nevertheless.
Do those companies had a former employee who a year after having worked for them builds an extremely barebones clone in a day and calls it superior (even as a joke) to their product? I bet not.
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