Comment by doomspork

Inexperienced, thought it was a good solution to get something up and running quickly and affordably to better serve their users.

Their inexperience has definitely cost them as they continuously tack on half baked features but I took some of their prompts, got the project code, and tried Claude with far greater results and quality. That got me digging deeper and left me feeling like Replit is a border line fraud. They asked to support markdown in a JS app. Replit opted to build a Regex based markdown parser that barely worked. No one prompted it to roll its own. They just asked for markdown support. They then spent numerous sessions trying to get it to work never understanding why it didn't. All the while Replit was printing money from them.