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Comment by omarhaneef | Hacker News Reader

Does replit have a really high cadence compared to most startups or am I surprised because I just see the occasional announcement and these things brew for a long time under the radar?

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My opinion is repl.it iterates fast, the CEO founder is very shipping and community oriented, and he's a good follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amasad

They were/are also incubated by YCombinator. They’re a darling here, for all the reasons you mentioned, but I also get the impression that they build in a “see what sticks” manner. I’ve found some of their recent announcements neat but not immediately valuable long-term or for non-casual users.

I have also been very impressed by their speed and would like to know their secret. They were founded in 2016 and I have only noticed this speed of iteration in the past 6-12 months. Was there an actual uptick? And was there some work or infrastructure investment in their early years that is now paying dividends?

I agree. It seemed like another competitor in the space along with cloud9, koding, code anywhere, shiftedit, code envy, nitrous and who knows how many others founded earlier, and then it seemed to move away adding on features.

Really the big moves are towards hosting, and I always thought that after AWS bought cloud9, they would dominate that space, but cloud9 seems frozen.

I wonder if Digital Ocean or someone buys them to bring about the cloud IDE/hosting combo. (Actually, I have no idea how large replit is and if that is even reasonable).

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