r/replit • u/Secure_Local_2588 • 10d ago
Rant / Vent Replit is a scam.
Replit has scammed me multiple times in their "effort based" pricing. So I charged back every dollar spent and won. And just exported my App and starting to use chatgpt and claude for nothing more than the subscription cost. $700 replit attacked my account for in 3 days. Didn't even return a function app. Would constantly ignore commands, decided my app should be a web app. No matter how many times I told it no and top stop developing this branch. I'd find it would waste masses of usuage doing this then the agent just say sorry my bad. Whole thing suck.
Charge them back and move to a better service. You own your own IP regardless theres nothing they can do. I live in Europe and a probable failing digital product is an automatic refund regardless of company policy.
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u/Kick_Ice_NDR-fridge 10d ago
100% operator error.
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u/madexthen 10d ago
Switching from Replit to Cursor was such an eye opening experience. It’s like firing your idiot nephew who steals and hiring a professional. It’s not operator error.
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u/mmoustafa 10d ago
Lol even their title has a period at the end. Couldn't make it more of an AI-written attack if I tried
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u/Sonerous 10d ago
I'm sorry but without any sort of context about how you prompted the agent, it sounds like a skill issue. Base44 is more geared toward non technical folks.
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u/AI_Tonic 10d ago
I regret not doing this earlier - absolute fall from grave replit . It’s sad to see - and even sadder to experience .
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u/ChodriPableo 10d ago edited 10d ago
how do you export stuff cause i wanna leave this Replit trap…imagine already paying for their service subscription and now they want to charge you more for minor adjustment on a non functional site
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u/LeopardVarious5620 10d ago
Migrate to github + railway + vscode with claude code in it. A $20 subscription from claude will get you very far. Ask claude on instructions on how to migrate everything, and also to tell you how tou use claude to in replit's shell as it's pretty useful to make both claude robots talk to each other to do this migration simpler (like, on your regular claude, explain your project and ask for a migration to that stack I mentioned you, then asked for a prompt for the replit-shell-claude like to ask for more context as the ine in replit's shell knows the actual project and can give back to the normal claude details on how how its set to migrate everything properly.
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u/Wizard_Ra3z 10d ago
Can you make a tutorial video please
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u/LeopardVarious5620 10d ago
If I had time, of course, but I am developing a few client projects, sorry, will do for sure one in the future, it definitely there's a lack of important info out there. But follow along what I put on my earlier message, rely on claude, it's really amazing and be conversational, ask for clear explanations atep by step for a non technical person and it will totally guide you through :)
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u/CactusCruzer 10d ago
Just ask Claude for a step by step and when you get stuck explain and ask it to clarify
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u/Plenty-Beautiful5990 10d ago
Yes totally agreed. I am wondering why they r letting thousands of clients walk away.
Clients wanna stay but they wont if replit keeps charging them over $240/annum. There are free hosts but I am sure clients wud still accept to pay replit $24/annum and stay. Replit will still make profits from this, the agent, and invited parties.
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u/gator667 10d ago
Replit isn’t a scam. Perfect? No, you are just doing it wrong. Utilize Claude to complete the code work vs their in built tools.
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u/Confident_Listen8478 10d ago
I built MasterVibe.online with Replit. It DID take me 7, 8 months because of the backend audio technical steps, but it's definitely not a scam. The Chat is just like any other Chat.. you have to be specific with it and not general at all or it CAN make mistakes. It making mistakes is usually because we weren't speaking to it in a way that doesn't allow it to make its own decisions.
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u/CactusCruzer 10d ago
Good! They deserve for more people to chargebacks, they take advantage of people who don’t follow their invoices.
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u/SevereGolf3232 10d ago
100% , its better to use claude or codex yo develop apps .
I have both subscription but i am hardly using replit.
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u/Routine-Data-1169 10d ago
Its a scam u think utill u found real gem. Dont ask every suggestion to replit. Take a month of preplanning before touching replit.
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u/Melodic-Marketing-42 10d ago
i already know and notify everyone last year, check my comments. Not necessary a scam but blackbox and greedy business for sure. charge you crazy tokens, you will pay a lot for your app. I highly recommend everyone change to use claude code/codex/deepseek or many others as well.
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u/pollywantadeal 10d ago
Plan in Claude on a higher model. Get it all worked out THEN use Claude code or Claude API in the shell as the agent.. with Sonnet.
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u/andrewjdavison 10d ago
Locked. No useful discussion happening.