Comment by gtyras2mrs

> To take that and open source the secret sauce of a fragile startup in a competitive market..

i think that's absolute bollocks.

Replit is not the first to pioneer running code online nor is the open-source project the secret sauce.

The open-source project seems to be a toy he built for satisfying his own curiosity, not scalable beyond a single-server. Something that the guy admits can be brought down by a fork bomb. it has no user-accounts, no sharing features, no persistance -- nothing that makes it the "secret sauce".

To quote the blog,

>Replit’s core value proposition isn’t letting you run code online (you can do this in dozens of places for free), it’s the features they offer on top of running code.

Running code online is not a novel idea that Replit came up with. It's the rest that made it appealing.