Comment by gorgoiler
5 years ago
Replit isn’t just about the tech. It’s about scale and marketing. They have to protect both of these if they want to be the place to go for online coding.
Sure, you can plug Monaco into some backend in a weekend. Good for you.
Can you support 100,000x active-last-minute on the same platform?
Can you build a brand that means you even have to be able to handle 100k ALM?
There are better ways Amjad could’ve handled this, but if you’re repulsed by the motive then HN is an odd place to air that revulsion.
It sounds like you are speaking to the author. I think it’s obvious they know how to do marketing (see how popular their blog post is proving). Scaling a platform to 100,000 isn’t hard, especially with millions in funding.
HN isn’t odd at all. Replit is YC funded after all.