[jokethrowaway]

Why don't you just use Claude?

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

[CharlieDigital]

A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical.

No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy.

(He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)

[tim333]

I think experienced programmers underestimate how tricky it is to sort the deploying to cloud platforms bit for beginners.

[mbesto]

> (He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)

I'm really curious what this looks like in practice? Like can you just download the whole codebase, throw it against a Supabase Postgres DB, and you're off running? What about any backing services or microservices? Is it tied to any thing like lambdas etc.

[paglaghoda]

claude is just too expensive and u need to atleast a bit technical expertise in it.

replit has made it like, even a 11 year old can make something out of thin air and acutally publish it to get a link to share

[infecto]

Third world country could be region blocked.

Not sure why this is controversial. I know it’s an issue with Cursor as they have to limit availability of models based on region. OpenAI specifically blocks India and Pakistan for example, among a long list of other countries.

[sometimes_all]

Why would anyone region-block a country which gives them a ton of users? OpenAI actually has India-specific plans alongside their regular ones, and I use Claude Code every day with zero problems.

[paglaghoda]

i'm not aware of any service geo-blocked by OpenAI to either pakistan or india

Could u share a link or something?

P.s. found nothing on a google search

[jacooper]

Because i can do it on the phone.