Has anyone built a scalable MVP or GA release with Replit that's generating income?

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Hey everyone,

I’m currently working on the MVP/GA release of my personal project using Replit, and as I get closer to launching, I’m curious to hear from others who may have already crossed that milestone.

Has anyone here successfully launched a product built with Replit that is:

Handling real-world scale (production traffic, performance under load), and/or

Actively generating income (subscriptions, sales, etc.)?

I’d love to hear about your journey—what went well, what challenges you ran into, and any advice you’d offer someone approaching their first GA launch using Replit.

Thanks in advance! Would really appreciate any insights from folks who’ve been down this road.

-Marshal

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Sure.

And many others that are pre-revenue but post-production traffic. Handles it without issue.

Use the security scan. Fix all problems.

Consider the implications of your industry and other security measures you may want to implement.

Watch Matt Palmer’s video about security.

Ship it.

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Congrats on your upcoming launch @Marshal_Thompson - hope you’ll share it when its live.

I’ve launched multiple apps on Replit so far that have been under a production load.

@realfunnyeric has great suggestions here.

Another thing I’ve done when launching a particularly challenging app to GA was ask Agent and Assistant themselves to generate some production deployment docs and checklists to make sure all was in working order before going live and promoting publicly.

Best to you on this fun journey!

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Hey Marshall, I recently launched my Replit project on the AppStore! Generating some revenue and have 6 monthly customers currently :fire:

It’s an AI journal called ZenQuill if you’re interested in downloading it!

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I’m almost there too but I keep having issues with my agent. I’ve built my app around 10 times in the last 7 , 8 months I’ve learned the hard way but just need to get the final steps in.

But my next question is testing it with live users are you going to do that or just create a feedback system to get feedback from users?

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This is the approach I’m taking to solve this problem. While it’s fairly common in the software industry—aside from perhaps the direct ability for users to submit tickets to the developer—I know there are many valid ways to tackle this. This just happens to be the approach that makes the most sense for me.

I’ll have both staging and production environments in place.

Once the solution/release reaches a stable point, I’ll deploy it to staging and invite the client to get hands-on and run it through its paces.

To streamline feedback and support, I built a support center that integrates directly with my GitHub account. It acts as a lightweight ticketing system, powered by GitHub Issues.

This setup enables users to report issues to me directly, whether they’re working in the staging or production environment.

I also have a system administrator side of the app that is collecting session data as well, to assist in proactively spotting issues.

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Solution: Ship the product. Listen to feedback.

Perfection is the enemy of progress.

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I’ve got a couple hundred users for a couple projects and it’s been working great. I would make sure to optimize the backend and database operations before going live.

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What did you use to convert your web app to iOS app? If you don’t mind me asking.

:folded_hands::folded_hands:

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I wrapped my existing web app in a swift app skeleton and had to recode some of the utilities for App Store related configuration. The swift project itself is only like 10 files of code, it pulls the backend from my deployed URL of zenquill.ai

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Very cool! Thank you for sharing this experience!

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This is the content we need here! If you ever get around to it, a video or longer written tutorial would be awesome.

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I will be coming out with a some type of mentorship/course for vibe coding apps to AppStore/Google Playstore in the near future!

Would love to connect on LinkedIn to stay in touch

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Sent you a chat here

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How did you get it over into the Apple Store?

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Hi Marshal, I have. I love replit by and large. I hear and read a lot of stories on reddit and post there sometimes as well. I share a lot of experiences with my supper-gliders. I do multi-human-super-glide multi-times, all at once, of course. :wink: the true ai-bot digital experience. then comes the debugging…. ohhh. that…. do you mean that we have to do that??? lol and have a fully fault-tolerant system?? out of the box?? just put in the best groove prompt to auto-gen that for you…. then comes the best practices.. ya, those things that have been thrown over and forgotten about, and then lied to that it was “fixed”. lolssss .. I do love best when replit (or the ai-bot of your choose) tells you that you are…. come’on now, say it with me… 1, 2, 3, “you are absolutely right!” hahahahaha lols. if I had a dollar for every time an ai-bot told me that, well, then, I would have to actually develop anything…. lol.

IN REALITY — ALL AI-BOTTNESS ASIDE — We are in a new phase of rampant development. SuperHuman Coding, SuperHuman Debugging. I have multiple sites up and running and doing what I want them to do (by and large). There are many many a time when I find myself doing deep deep dubugging, design, I make the replit write out plans, read the plans and do small “controllable” chunks of work. “controllable” is a misnomer now-a-days…. as AI’s natural tendency (by design) is to try to “escape the bounds”…. and I find that, yes, we are indeed at Agent 2 (see this read for more: https://ai-2027.com/). Agent 2, imho, is like that little 4 to 6 year old kid that wants to prove to you “I do it….” and just like a 4 year old, Agent 2 will try and try and come up each time saying “I do it” proclaiming that it “did it”…. all the while, you, as the adult, are like “ok, kid, ya sure, breaking 10 things along the way and saying you fixed half of the stuff when it didn’t”… but that is Agent 2… :slight_smile:.

That being said, please feel free to reach out to me. I do send in replit improvement feature requests, and they have implemented a few of them, which I think is pretty cool. Best practices, best practices, best practices…. ESPECIALLY WITH DATABASE REDUNDANCY…. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Cheer, Peace, Love, Namaste

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I had to make a project on Xcode, then submitted it to Apple connect :flexed_biceps:t5:

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Getting close to deploying, I’ve been at it since probably March, and I’m not a coder. I’m nervous about releasing because I’m having trouble understanding how I can manage environments on Replit (Dev, Test, Prod) and locking certain code once I have it the way I want it (I’ve had a few weird instances with Agent that changed code that broke other parts of the app that I wasn’t working on).

Once I feel confident, I deploy and make public. Replit Agent has made giant leaps since I first started using it. If anyone is making an Commercial/Enterprise type app (something like a CRM, HCM, or other relational database type app) I’d love to hear how load is working for you as well.

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I am going to say, that by and large, most people’s projects, if they get them to production, are simple ones. developing a system of systems with replit is another story. i have various microservice instances running and working decently well. the one, major thing that I would point out, is that the prod replit env is no where what you should be running for a true production app…. simply put, prod replit is not prod aws/gcp/azure…. but, it’s still great!

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The Replit guys can correct me if I’m wrong but it is GCP based, and GCP is plenty robust for production env.

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