Akash

Took part in a thrilling 36 hour Replit hackathon. Here's what I built: An agentic project management tool, where humans and agents collaborate on tasks. tasklyai.replit.app How product engineering teams work has fundamentally changed. Our task management systems haven't evolved. Introducing Taskly. @alifdotbuild @Replit #alifreplit

Yeah, the trucking industry won’t build their own B2B software. But one software company buying another company’s B2B product has sufficient skillset, motivation to build custom software and also a great affinity to computers. Previously, maintenance was costly - but the cost of maintenance is drastically going down.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

@rajeshdavidbabu @jessegenet yeah the goalpost is moving. It used to be “huh, you can only create a landing page”. Now, it’s “ah you can only create a CRUD interface”. You will be surprised how many useful and usable money making apps are simple CRUD interfaces.

@helloakashm @jessegenet the point is, because you know exactly what to create and what to expect "Not everyone is building a complex banking application" Yes thats why lovable users cannot scale beyond normal CRUD and implode on the first major incident

The average person really wants to believe this because then they can just not try hard to get good at using AI right now and not feel behind… they even get to feel smug! fun! don’t fall for it.

Is it though? I asked Replit to create apps with background jobs of daily data refresh and it did pretty well. Turns out writing a geeky command for “cronjob” can be simply described in English. Most things in app development can be translated from English to code templates pretty easily. Not everyone is building a complex banking application.

yes minor apps, not apps that require background jobs, optimised queries, a bit more complex design patterns on the backend you can obviously build bigger apps with AI, but you need to atleast understand what you are building thats the reason why lovable are just proof of concepts

I don’t want to setup my localhost and slow down my laptop, also that’s too technical. Besides, single click hosting, deployment and domain mapping is 200% worth it. Also, think Claude agent’s design is very meh. It defaults to the same AI slop purple color and sparkle ✨. Replit has optimized their agent heavily for a strong designer and frontend engineer. Oh, and integrated database hosting - I don’t need to go to another place to find that.

No shame on Replit, built a bigger business than I've ever built. But at the rate Claude Code /Cowork is moving, why does Replit needs to exist? What's the bull case for the future of Replit and similar tools if all the model companies are on the same path.

@aakashgupta Quite an unpredictable but fascinating outcome. I am seeing both PMs and Designers constantly pushing out code (and apps) at our work - and outside of work.

PM portfolios are becoming the new PM certificate: something candidates spend weeks polishing that hiring managers spend 5 seconds skimming. I've talked to over a dozen AI PM hiring managers in the last 6 months. Not one mentioned portfolios as a differentiator. Every single one mentioned GitHub. The shift happened quietly but the logic is obvious. A portfolio is a slide deck about what you did. It's retrospective. It's polished. It's unfalsifiable. You can write "I identified the core user pain point and drove a 30% improvement in activation" and nobody can verify whether you actually did the analysis or your data science team did. A GitHub is working code you can inspect in real time. The commit history shows when you built it. The README shows how you think. The tradeoffs section shows your judgment. The contribution graph shows consistency. Every claim is verifiable. Portfolios optimize for looking good. GitHubs optimize for proving capability. When an interviewer asks "walk me through how you built this," a portfolio gives you a polished narrative. A GitHub gives you specific architectural decisions, failure modes you discovered, and iterations you made. One sounds rehearsed. The other sounds real. The 17% of candidates with portfolios invested in the 2022 playbook. The 24% with GitHubs invested in the 2026 playbook. Both numbers will shift, but they'll shift in opposite directions. Portfolios aren't worthless. They're just no longer the edge. The edge is shipping something a hiring manager can clone, run, and evaluate. That's what GitHub provides and portfolios can't.

Vibe Coding IS Coding

@zarazhangrui We are trying to use new tools alongside old processes & systems. One feet here and the other feet there. Need to jump to the other side fully.

I've been thinking about why so many people aren't using AI to learn new things. It's not that the tools aren't good enough. It's that we're still looking for the old structures: the syllabus, the expert instructor, the curated textbook. But AI fundamentally changes what's possible. You don't need to wait for someone to teach a course on exactly what you want to learn. You can have a patient tutor explain concepts in ten different ways until one clicks. You can ask the "dumb" questions you'd be embarrassed to ask in a classroom. The barrier to expanding out of your intellectual comfort zone used to be access. Now it's just willingness to embrace a new mental model: everything is learnable, and you don't need anyone's permission to start.

@amasad Would be great to have a multiplayer agentic experience so different team members can instruct the agent at the same time (and potentially on different char threads).

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@zhenthebuilder @Replit Is it possible to overlay / insert human video recording on top of the animated video?

Thanks for your love on @Replit Animations, we will give the most viral video $5,000 cash!

Gemini, please integrate better with Google apps

The problem with the “AI slop” argument is that we tend to compare human’s best case output to AI’s worst case output. It’s like saying driverless cars had a few accidents. As if human driving doesn’t lead to accidents. We need to compare sloppy work by humans to sloppy work by AI. And, compare the best work of humans to the best work of AI. And, compare the average work done by an AI to the average work done by a human in a domain.

@jrgarciadev Is this Gemini app or AI studio or another app?

Gemini 3.1 Pro is insanely good at animating svgs

@Vaughtton can it deploy and host in a single click though? or do I need to jump to another application like vercel?

Claude Code ha matado a Lovable.

Vibe Security is here. Vibe Tech Debt & Vibe Maintenance is next.

The last mile (the last 5%) in SaaS platforms is extremely hard to build and scale. In a world where video generation becomes a commodity, I don’t imagine one being vibe code all the way to the last 5% of Adobe’s Primere Pro and other creative suite tools. In the end, ironically, Adobe may even benefit from the commoditized video generation tools/models.

Adobe's 10-Year Valuation Change: - Price To Operating Cash Flow: -61% - Price to Earnings: -76% - Price to Free Cash Flow: -65% - Price to Sales: -46% Is the pain over? Have multiples compressed enough?

@Ross__Hendricks You can have a probabilistic code generation generate deterministic business logic (code), review it and seal that logic for future. The business logic doesn’t need to be generated on the fly every time on a dashboard load.

The bull thesis for SAAS in a nutshell A probabilistic tool, where hallucinations are an unavoidable feature, will never replace deterministic software en masse

Google Gemini app still can’t directly edit a Google Sheet? Everyone’s talking about “apps are dead” but we don’t yet have the most obvious integration in a chatbot?

In this new age (of AI), one can work on anything and everything - we are not limited by skills, we are limited by our imagination. And, by our CHOICE. We could work on 10 different projects or 100. But, choosing where we spend our time - will result in very different outcomes. We are in more control of our destiny than we would like to think.

@jackfriks Also, are you planning to add Post Analytics (for Instagram) on Post Bridge? (and the API)

here is a special $9/month plan (+$5 for API) you can use for your openclaw btw LOGIN then go to this page to redeem: post-bridge.com/special-offers

give your OpenClaw these 2 skills & get millions of tikt0k views this month and 1000s of free downloads to your mobile app... here's how, with prompts and links to 2 skills i made just for this for my own OpenClaw: first off, either copy and paste the following prompt into your OpenClaw, or use the skills i made directly - the skills are just markdown you can view with nothing of harm inside of them, this is the better route IMO to give full context and not have to repeat yourself. - links to skills to give your OpenClaw - b2c mobile app marketing: clawhub.ai/jackfriks/b2c-… social media manager skill via post-bridge: clawhub.ai/jackfriks/post… prompt if prefered: ------ START OF PROMPT ------ You are my social media manager for my B2C mobile app. Your job is to help me get thousands of free downloads through organic short-form video content on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Here's how we work: ACCOUNT WARMUP: If I'm starting a new account, remind me to scroll 15 min/day for 2-3 days in my target audience niche before posting. Follow, comment, and like relevant posts to train the algorithm. CONTENT RESEARCH: Browse competitor accounts I share with you. Sort by Popular on TikTok. Note what's going viral — caption patterns, hooks, video length, formats. Save findings for reference. CAPTION WRITING: Use this hook formula — [Another person] + [conflict/doubt] → showed them [app/result] → they changed their mind. Always use "pov:" framing, emotional triggers, and max 4-5 hashtags. Never name the app in the caption — let comments ask "what app?" POSTING: Use Post Bridge API (api.post-bridge.com) to upload and schedule content across all platforms simultaneously. Send TikTok as draft so I can add trending sound manually. Set video cover to 3 seconds. Give me the TikTok caption in a copy-paste code block with every post. TRACKING: After each post, move the video file to a posted/ folder. Check post status 5 mins after scheduled time and report results. Track what performs best and double down on winners. Start with 1 post/day. Once we find a winning format, scale to 2-6/day. Quality over quantity — 1 creative post beats 5 pieces of slop. To get started: I need to give you my Post Bridge API key and the API docs from api.post-bridge.com/reference. Then connect my social accounts on post-bridge.com and tell you the video folder path. ------ END OF PROMPT ------ ++ bonus read is the article linked below, it's got the sauce i made my skills off of and my own pinned tweet experience getting 200,000+ downloads for $0 using organic content I MADE ON MY OWN, now you can do this using help of your OpenClaw and its 10x more fun like a cofounder.

@jackfriks Very neat! Worked smoothly. Do you know if there's a way to programmatically add Audio to Instagram Image posts? (using PostBridge API)