- Your ask was not clear (Asking for help with everything)
- It's not clear which 5 projects/ideas Replit "stole"
I have nothing to do with Replit and I dislike them after the intern project thing, but this is fair criticism from Amjad.
1) Mobile IDE (iPad Pro with keyboard)
2) Real-time reverse debugger (like https://rr-project.org/ with 60 fps and less ram)
3) Full git and video history (Bret Victor inventing on principle)
So
1) “Billions will be repeated on mobile,” Amjad said in the promo, but my project is 10 years old and I’ve been working on it since 2008. This is my idea for 22 years as an old school developer with a lot of experience. A few developers were doing dev on mobiles and this is clearly not Amjad. If he was engaged, then we would happily communicate every day, but this did not happen.
2) Replay 2022 reverse debugger is side project where Amjad is investor. I wrote to Amjad and why he don't asked me at 2020? Here is only a few reverse debuggers in the world rr, ACPU, solidity/web3 and... new replit-replay. Why he not invested in mine better debugger and don't asked any questions? Because
3) History++ is here. I use code logging a lot time, from 2014 first implementation. I have a lot tools like this that Amjad don't know why.
Other features are nothing new right now, but team development, multiplayer, skins, mobile devices, and more look like innovations in 2020. Over the years, I have analyzed many programs and programming languages, as well as IDEs, game engines, etc. I just show Amjad the direction, and he completely ignored me. I think it was easy to analyze my project and make a copy of the key features. I thought a lot why such projects are not done in Silicon Valley, and as soon as I told Amjad, a year later they were implemented in his project. Before that, I did not write much on HN and hide it for years. There are no such coincidences. The mobile phone is a key function, etc. No need to steal ideas.
I hope enough.
You are asking why the CEO of a company is not deeply engaged with your ideas and didn't invest in them. The simple answer is that you didn't present them well and he probably doesn't have time to dig into them deeply.
I really doubt he did a teardown on your projects and then stole the best parts for his company. More likely, because you are working in a similar space to Replit they happened to build some of the same ideas. For example, a mobile IDE is something that makes of a lot sense for them to build if they have 20% of users on mobile and see it as the future.
And all other algorithms are known. Usually technical people communicate and not brazenly copy other people's ideas, as happened 4k HN topic or rr debugger Amjad startup fact. Let me remind you that he presented himself as "an investor" and was not even interested in the most complex technology in the world, but preferred to simply make a clone
I will remind you of a story. Once upon a time, Apple and Google entered into an agreement not to rehire employees. It existed for 6 months and since then we have been living in this new reality. W/o Steve Jobs and old rules. Okay?