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Some companies host bots, internal tools, and increasingly micro-services. But primarily side-projects and increasingly early-stage startups (e.g. https://blog.replit.com/blubbr).

One fresh thing is plenty of developers in India are hosting covid support apps on Replit. This particular app has done 1m+ hits in the past 24 hours: https://covid.army/

You can add __repl after any app to get the source: https://covid.army/__repl

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This is so cool. I love how Repl.it is making a positive impact by empowering the developers.

How is this different from glitch.me? I am genuinely curious. Looks like a static Next.js app. I am a regular replit user, I want to know if the support of node/deno is complete (it hasn't been really responsive so far).

It’s better, more robust, faster, and more flexible. Bigger user base and network of creators and apps to draw on.

Node support is A* and deno is still experimental.

Speaking of runtime support, any reason why C# is using Mono instead of official cross-platform .NET Core 3.x or the latest .NET 5, and it also looks like ASP.NET is unsupported. Any plans to address these in the near future?

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