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Comment by anm89 | Hacker News Reader

Replit was recently in the news when the CEO used expensive company lawyers to attack a an individual contributor on an open source project to force the project to close even though they had done nothing wrong just because it was impossible to pay the legal fees.

Don't support them.

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Yes.. I thought that incident made him look very, uh, disgraceful.

He likes to predend Repl.it is some marvel of technology when it is unironically a weekend project (which the intern he attacked did better). Bruised egos are dangerous.

Absolute power and money corrupts. In this case looks like both. Yeah I stopped using Replit after this. Other alternatives

https://stackblitz.com/

https://glot.io/

https://codesandbox.io/

There site still seems to be up> https://riju.codes/

I bet the investors took this on a positive note, as jerks tend to be successful CEO in Venture-Tech space. The irony is that every employer wants to hire people who share their vision of the company. But when you quit the job, you should also quit that passion.

Not saying replit wasn't wrong in this (CEO apologized), but from my point of view the story is not that clear-cut.

Apologies don't undo a history of a mal-intent towards employees who helped build the company. Similar to how apologizing doesn't undo a bad first impression.

Link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

Wow, that was a wild ride. Thanks for helping clear that up.

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