If you’re using Replit for large scale deployed projects, I’d love to talk to you about your use cases and experiences. Post below or drop me a DM.
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I’m in the process of trying too… tbh rn im trying to figure out the best ways to create what I’m calling “fake safe traffic” to keep expanding the capabilities and testing the limits. That parts tricky.
Plus there’s a part of me that’s not thrilled or willing to deploy for a wider community within even a six month time frame without having extensive knowledge and experience in at least JavaScript for large scale projects unless there’s something of the sort where we can run a security audit beyond the limits of what we currently have and not cost nearly 200k for an outside agency to do it… because it’s all fun and games until you’re trying to maintain an application with a heavy pro tiered subscription service by yourself and don’t have the capacity or competency in e-commerce related tasks and then you go bust because you vibe coded a project of magnitude without deep enough pockets to hire the team to build it out… and everyone’s calling you like “my accounts down I want to cancel my subscription bro” lol
yes i am! i am not a coder but great at giving instrucitons lol ( not really). current project, full database, microsoft 365 integration for email, ringcentral integration for sms, multiple custom widget addons, secure login, shopify integration. forgot Perplexity integration for enhanced ai functions
I’ve been building a bus stop location, timetable and bus tracking platform at www.greekislandbuses.com. This project has gotten bigger and bigger and now I regularly have issues deploying updates from the Replit development site to Replit production; as files aren’t copied correctly.
I originally built a React app, but then added SEO pages so people can search for bus stops, bus timetables and then find nearby attractions to each bus stop.
Replit has been pretty good, but with my lack of coding skills I haven’t been able to solve some basic issues.
Replit support have been great, but I may have stretched their ability or willingness to help 
Keen to learn more/share the pain 
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Interesting share @GregArmstrong! FYI, original link has an extra ‘e’. https://greekislandbuses.com/
Good use case for adding the directory style SEO pages, looks like they are getting picked up in search too!
Curious to hear more about what you consider large scale deployed projects? What metric are you thinking, users, size of app, revenue, etc?
Moving target, but as of today, large-scale would be enterprise-level applications, adhering to all their ‘kink’ as I like to say re: auth, SSO, Microsoft’s circus of an ecosystem, and general security mandates.
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My metric would be users - though integrations, app maturity (how many iterations/version bumps) are also good.
Other things that make a replit project “larger scale” to me are the size of the database (does it have enough records to require special performance management techniques), the size of the audience (is it an internal app or for broad consumption), and any localization features.
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Thanks for the heads up on the extra ‘e’ @mark 
In my next project I’ll be more thoughtful on the end goal and try to educate Replit Agent to follow better rules each time it makes changes as I have somehow removed my GTM implementation and now it may take another 3 days to figure out why I can’t deploy the GTM code to the production site. I’ll be taking better notes from now on
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What map system are you using?
I’m using http://openstreetmap.org and Leaflet.js (for now)
I had the same question. I generally use Replit as a very capable, rapid front functional prototyping tool for a concept, or a single function widget that takes in an input and produces an output in a slick UI. However, I’ve been tempted to use Replit to build out a larger Stack project. But I am concerned that as I introduced complexity to the application, I will get into more errors and essentially reach a limit where Replit is no longer able to manage all the components of a larger more complex application. My approach is going to be to create , a very detailed BRD and provide as much explanation as possible into a project plan and ask it to make the code modular so that debugging is easier. I don’t know if this will work, but I’m excited to try.
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I’m “app”rehensive about sharing my ideas publicly without legalese being clarified (just me). However, I will say the more complex the app gets the more knowing and being (at the very least) intermediate in the languages you use is going to be crucial. LLMs are still infants with coding…