Hey all, I’ve been loving Replit, I thought I’d share what I’ve been working on.
I’m a coffee roasting and cafe business owner from Australia with very little coding background, although I have worked on apps in the past and I’ve loved it and always wanted to build stuff myself. I managed to build a complete SaaS product using Replit playing around over the last few months.
The app is AssetShark (assetsharkapp.com) is asset tracking and depreciation software for Australian small businesses. It automatically calculates depreciation using the ATO’s official effective life rulings and rates. I’ve been using it internally and now I’m launching it, currently looking for beta users.
What Replit Agent built for me:
- Full React frontend with a clean UI
- Node.js backend with authentication
- CMS for managing blog posts and pages (this is on a separate project, that’s all live up on the website.
- A free depreciation calculator with 24+ pre-loaded asset types, which is up on the blog. This is a bit of a lead magnet but also a userful tool in its own right.
- Admin dashboard
- API endpoints for everything
What worked well:
- Pre December 2025 it was a hard slog but in the new year I pretty much went from buggy app to working product in weeks. The progess in the agent is insane.
- The agent understood Australian tax concepts when I explained them
- Iterating on features was fast — describe what you want, get it built
- The deployment/hosting just works
What was tricky:
- Some bugs needed multiple rounds of prompting to fix (more last year than now)
- The agent sometimes makes changes that break other things, (but that’s becoming less and less)
- You need to be very specific about edge cases (like financial year boundaries in Australia), timezones in particular seems to be something that the AI finds to be hard work
I’ve also been using an AI marketing tool to handle the SEO content and marketing pages, which has been a great combo — Replit builds the product, AI handles the marketing, although it remains to be seen how effective it is. I also just built an explainer video using Replit Animation which is pretty awesome (I’d say it one shotted it but let’s be honest and say it was 3 shots, but still very good).
If anyone’s in Australia and runs a small business, I’d love beta testers: assetsharkapp.com (free during beta, 48 of 50 spots left).
Happy to answer questions about the build process! I’ve also built 2 other tools, a content calendar tool (Replit back end and web interface, X Code built mobile app front end), and a staff rostering tool, fully in Replit back end, front end and mobile app.