My experience with replit

I have an Architectectural firm, replit has created a website portal that almost works, it looks great but is not functional. Its been a few months since I have been back here and it looks like replit fixed the issues with the site to correct database errors. My issue is that replit ‘says’ the errors in the website was repaired but my past experience has been it was never fixed. Now my account is out of credits and you want to charge me $240 to continue. This feels like bait and switch to me. I have lost all confidence in replit. They say AI lies, well I believe after spending money here I have been duped by the AI Agent. I have a half working site and spent my valuable time for no real results. Is there any real human here that can help here. My site is performing at the 80%/20% rule with the 20% not working or being able to see if it is working. Please help to help restore my confidence in this product. Thank you.

Sounds like your account lapsed, and the $240 is just the Core plan to get back into the system?

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@rtad The $240 will be an annual bill for 12-months. I believe Replit defaults to annual payment.

If you click the toggle, you can switch to monthly, which is $25 (so paying slightly more monthly, than annually).

So you can choose whatever suits your budget best.

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Also on the original gripe… I’ve never had an app that I couldn’t get working 100%, flawless and incredibly robust. If you’re 80% there and can’t get the last 20% yourself, you might want to invest in someone that will get you the last mile.

Vibe coding feels like magic, but it’s not magic. Struggling with the 20% is not your failure or the Agent’s. There are vibe code experts that will help you close the 20%.

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In fact, there are people that have built entire businesses around this :sweat_smile:

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I would humbly suggest, that the reason many non-techie vibe coders struggle with the final 20%, is because they didn’t get the first 30% right.

i.e. the planning, architecting and design processes that should always be done before the fun coding bit.

Much of the final 20% (but not all) is automatically resolved if the overall project was clearly spec’d correctly in the first place.

In fact @rtad, I see you say you have an architectectural firm. So I am sure you more than anyone appreciates the need to plan and design things properly before laying the first bricks :blush:

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