I woke up on Friday to news of Replit’s new design mode. But also from a dream telling me my existing website was boring 🤣 So, I asked Replit to design a new one! Job done and fully live in just a few hours: gipity.com @Replit is on fire 🔥🔥 Thank you @amasad 👏

The @Replit agent is truly magical. The only tool I'd trust to produce 28 layers of build dependencies and then run it without a hitch. And indeed, 3 hours later, job done! Click build, and trust the force Luke!!

As @Replit Ambassador to the Court of St James's, and a Buildathon judge, I've been asked to make an important announcement regarding the competition. I've built a dedicated website for this big news and future Buildathon updates: buildathon-news.replit.app/ #replit

27 minutes and just $5 is all it took for the incredible #ReplitAgent4 to produce OnlyGrans: a fun app to find grandmas who can help you bake, weave, knit and give relationship advice. Made with ❤ and warm cookies. @amasad, @Replit is on fire!! 🔥 onlygrans.gipity.com

How to do founder/investor matching in 2026... Investors sit on the floor in a circle. Excited founder runs round the room, has a good sniff, and jumps into the lap of the investor that smells right. Show me an investor who'd be able to resist those puppy dog founder eyes 🐶

I've decided to push my services beyond helping startups, so have been busy tweaking my own website. 100% built in @Replit. And whilst most people would use one AI tool for coding, and another (like Claude or ChatGPT) for all their planning, strategy, and messaging, I'm done with keeping them separate. I now run everything through Replit: one AI agent that knows my codebase and my big vision. And even suggests topics for what to write in tomorrow's Linkedin post. Who said Replit is just a coding tool? I highly recommend it as a complete business companion. gipity.com

Has the @steipete/@openclaw and @OpenAI tie up just renamed Jony Ive and @sama's forthcoming wearable AI gadget? The Lobster, available from all good stores soon.

It's amazing what you can create with AI and @Replit these days! Just $1.29 in credits, and that is all my Christmas video cards sorted! Merry Christmas, and see you all again in 2026 for another AI-filled year 🎅🎄

Oh good grief! Can we stop blaming AI dev tools whenever we see a crappy vibe coded app. Platforms like @Replit are fantastic and work great when you know how to feed them the right info. But if you don't, then, as us old-schoolers like to say: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Great founders addicted customers = who cares if OpenAI might copy it. Stop worrying about moats. Just launch your app idea FAST, and start selling. If the idea and you are any good, and if you go fast enough, you'll make some decent money.

I just read an expert's idea of a "5 yr plan for startups". More theoretical tosh! As a founder you need to be out in much less than 5 yrs, sat on the beach with a piña colada, and planning your next startup. Let's be honest, for most founders, if you are still in at the 5 year mark, you've probably missed the exit ramp and are a zombie startup, kidding yourself you're still capable of "scaling" and reaching mythical unicorn status. The speed of startups in this mad new AI-backed world means, if the business is doing well at 2-3 years, you should find someone bigger who knows how to launch it into the next orbit. For most founders, this is not you. Exit at 2-3 years. Low £millions. Go again. Repeat until the care home calls. Oh, and by the way, that exit money needs to be hard cash. And it goes to founders only - no investors to take any cream off the top. If you spent 6-12 months of those 2-3 years faffing about finding an investor, then you've wasted the most critical period of a startup's early life. You can disagree all you like, and spend half your days on here, talking the talk and arguing with AI-written posts. The startup process is simple: Build, sell, sell-out. If any part fails, then pivot or find a new idea, and go again. JFDI !

MVPs do not need to scale or look pretty. What they do need to do is actually work, and not fall apart in front of your first 100 customers. And not take forever or cost the earth to build while you're still finding market fit. Luckily the MVPs I build are scalable and look pretty. And well architected, tested and secure. Because that's the difference between having a go at vibe coding your own app, and letting someone with over 30 years of tech, startup and business experience do it for you.

And what we're seeing is just the bottom forming on the @replit hockey stick. Still a way to go!

I saw this post recently: "has anyone managed to create a profitable startup yet from vibe coding?" Such a stupid question. AI-assisted dev doesn't make sales, that's your job. But it does help you start selling much sooner.

Smell the risk profile👃Planning an app in @Replit isn't just about the coding. Ask it about some legal aspects, and it'll give a cool response like: "Let me break it down in practical terms for you, not as a lawyer, just so you can smell the risk profile"

Startup circus 'experts' say "build it and they will come" is wrong. Really? Post daily on social, grow your followers & fans, then give them a little nudge when you launch something new. Watch them come. Selling has never been easier.

AI agent: "The fix is to do x, y and z. If it fails, roll back." In other words: "I don't have a clue, so am going to hack some code and see what happens. If it fails, roll back."