Adam Ballai

I’ve taught my 3 year old how to pull an espresso shot. They grow up so fast.

@witty_genstein Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

we need to invent a new sentence structure that allows me to communicate "its not x, its y" without sounding like AI

I've worked on engineering productivity in some way for 20 years. I have never seen a curve bend like this before. Not even close.

@pokharna_anushk I'll take the compliment :D

@minddog I genuinely thought you were much much younger

In one of my first software jobs, I had to clock-in physically on a green screen. No salary, just hourly! I needed to work remotely since I was doing web development and lived three towns over for family reasons. I figured out that timecards were powered by an AS400 program and they had an IP I could connect to. This open-source project gave me the opportunity to ssh in, access the timecard program on the AS400, and get me paid. Felt like the future back in 2003. Can't believe this project has commits over 27 years old. tn5250.github.io

Great opportunity for someone who loves working with enterprise customers and fast moving product teams!

Need to check the yelp reviews before visiting. These types of places are hit or miss.

Favorite way to do development with a 3-year old. Mobile-first. 1. Termius for iOS 2. Mobile-friendly Cloud-based AI Tooling 3. Tailscale for iOS Unstoppable mix. I am able to plan and build while he’s falling asleep. 😴

I have a neighbor who is at Anthropic. When I move, I will have a new neighbor that works at Anthropic. Have we peaked?

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Find people that believe in you more than you believe in yourself

Making your first dollar online just got so much easier with Replit's new Whop integration. 1) Build it on Replit 2) Integrate payments with Whop (no setup required) 3) Publish and promote

@samuel_spitz FOMO as a service. Make it a vertical specific SaaS and get paid in equity for each deal you help close.

If I wanted to raise a Series A I’d hire a TaskRabbit, send them to South Park Blue Bottle for a week, and make them pretend to be on the phone talking about my startup being pre-empted

@Replit @kodylow Easier than sliced bread! 🍞

Now introducing Replit Desktop, a seamless way to multitask and get the best of Replit right on your Desktop. Supported for both Windows and Mac.

@samuel_spitz This is the way to strong opinions, loosely held!

It’s underrated to just listen You don’t need to have strong opinions about everything

What a year it's been since the @openintdev acquisition by @Replit . We got the chance to circle back, expand our inventory, and massively improve the user experience of integrations at Replit. Replit offers by far the most advanced set of integration capabilities on the market. Other platforms offer pre-made MCP tool-based integrations, not full underlying raw access to the third-party service API. Furthermore, Replit Connectors can be used by both the agent and the application it builds to securely communicate with over 450 third-party services without ever accessing the underlying credentials. Finally, most platforms in the market white-label a third-party SaaS to achieve this, so, under the hood, your most sensitive company data is being shared with yet another party. Not at Replit. It's all in-house, and our Enterprise customers can secretly deploy it as a single tenant or on-prem. Power, Breadth, and Security. Pick all 3, and that's Replit Connectors!

John, you're right - this should be much easier. Customers should be able to right-size spend without feeling locked in or risking disruption. We're rolling out self-serve downgrade support over the next few days. In the meantime, we'll handle this directly and make sure your credits/access are treated fairly. We fell short here and we're fixing it. cc @ReplitSupport

I've just experienced something I almost can't believe. I'm on @Replit's Pro 500 plan ($440/mo) and I go to merely move down a couple levels in spend, because I don't need as many credits in the near term (because I built up a nice bank of credits). So, I go in their app and there is no way to level down your spend (super easy to increase it). I email their help desk and they tell me I have to cancel my subscription in order to change it. I said no, you don't understand, I'm not leaving, I just want to reduce the extra credit packs and lower my plan. They confirm they won't do that. They said I have to cancel because their software won't allow it. Can you believe this? A software company that lets you build anything can't (more like doesn't want to) build a feature that allows you to level down, just as easy as they allow you to level up, your spend? Oh, and by the way, if you cancel your subscription, then you lose (ie they keep the money) all the credits you paid for, they take the project offline and you no longer access to the agent. You're kicked to the curb. Unclear if they delete your project entirely (make sure you back it up on GH). Customer service basically said sorry, but nothing we're going to do about it. Transitioning a single project from @boltdotnew in order to get the multiple agents of Replit, I don't think I was ever as psyched starting a new vibe coding app to be so quickly disappointed and let down. I want to believe the ceo @amasad doesn't know about this. Because it makes no sense why a company would have such a horrendous process for a customer who merely wants to right-size their spend (and most likely just temporarily). I feel like I've been conned and taken advantage of. Their customer service can't even manually make this change for you, since they've decided not to allow the tool to do it. Bolt.new let me easily down-level my spend as easy as I could up-level it. This experience with Replit is like a kick to the groin. This was a great learning lesson for me on how not to treat customers if you have a consumption-based business. And I'll be sure with the software I build to not make the mistake they're making. Replit you get an F- for customer support and loyalty. This trickery might make you a few extra bucks, but at the expense of customers who will trust you'll do the right thing. You live and you learn. @cursor_ai @Lovable - Do you allow your customers to down-level their spend as easy as up-level, or do you follow the Replit playbook of spend lock-in and kicked to the curb if you ever want to change?

5mi before 6am, day started early. Road was mine. It’s yours now.

I don't think East Rutherford was ever on the global map for anyone till this week.

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