Replit

I've seen multiple ads for this app that can apparently make you an entirely new app?

But in this subreddit, I've browsed a bit and I think everyone here is a programmer to some degree?

So is it viable for someone with no coding skills, or is it a tool for coders, or both?

For context, I need an app that can list items, have those items have descriptions, and include a search function that accepts multiple tags at once.

I decided to try out the new Replit AI agent that everyone on Twitter was raving about, so I signed up for Replit Core for a year. At first, the agent seemed incredible—it was generating working code for about 20 minutes. But then things went downhill. It stopped editing the code directly and started telling me what to change instead. It even claimed to have made changes to files that it hadn’t touched. Eventually, it stopped running the server altogether and just turned into a basic chatbot with a bad UI, often repeating itself.

Unfortunately, there are no refunds, so I’m stuck hoping the product improves. Right now, though, it feels like the company is more about hype and making money than delivering on its promises.

Can't do X links on this sub but if you go to that guy's profile you can see more context on what happened.

I've been a big fan of Replit for a long time. Great easy environment for me to show people how to program. I've been using it as my interface for a free Python class I teach.

Then they cut my space down and I had to delete half of my files to fit.

Then they cut me to 3 replits and I had to delete dozens of replits and just keep the 3 core ones I use to teach my class.

I get it, they have to make money, so I was ok with these restrictions.

Now I am told "I have used up all my development time". I use it for exactly 2 hours once a week during my Python class. I'm not paying $180 for the privilege of giving a free Python class once a week. I'll just switch to VSCode, the shell, Discord screen share and a projector in the room.

I went to see what the community is saying about this. Surprise, the community is gone. Replit took it down, obviously because it would be filled with anger and/or recommendations where else to go.

Does anyone have recommendations where I should direct my students to practice Python? Or do I just tell them all to install everything locally on their laptops? That would be a shame because I could pop in and help them with their code.

Edit: I figured out that ironically it was the time it took me to delete all my files and replits to fit into the new restrictions that used up all my "development time". Thanks Replit. You couldn't even throw me deleting my files for free. Now I have to wait a month before I have access to save my code off Replit.