I was dinking around on replit and quickly exhausted my free credits for the month. Before I pay for more, I wanted to know if there's a better option for the kinds of things replit does: i.e. building webapps from prompts.
Also, have people been able to make accounts at replit using proton addresses?
I vibe code webapps using opencode for free. When I run out of free credits using Opencode's free models (i.e. Big Pickle), I switch to openrouter's poolside/laguna-xs.2 and keep building.
Why is this answer so far down, opencode is literally the best one of them
Thanks
For simple, straight forward things, you can try https://arena.ai/agent - for free; they just want your feedback if it were any good.
Sounds perfect, thanks. I'll take a look.
Did you have any luck with this?
Yes! It's working great so far.
That's awesome!
I was going to cancel my replit subscription because I wasn't doing much with it and paying 20/month but they offered me 3 months for 5/month so I kept it. My daughter made a game with replit yesterday. I was trying to teach her what it means to iterate.
Her game is called Pet the Kitten and all you do is pet cats. Haha
Anyways if you sign up for a month at 20 and then cancel maybe they will give you a deal.
Good genre. She should try adding a feature/difficulty where if you pet too much or at the wrong time the cat bites you.
e.g.
https://byeorisim.itch.io/brush-jjaemu
Personally I think that would be hilarious but I am not sure I am going to suggest that to my 7 year old.
It would certainly make it more realistic.
Good to know. I would definitely pay $5 a month, although I'd rather pay with sats.
Well you can sign up for a different AI and have it build you a version of replit that charges you in sats. Haha
Have you tried Claude Code $20/month tier? It doesn't handle hosting for you, but it'll certainly make a webapp for you. And it can help you with hosting, like how to get it done on a platform of your choice.
Edit: disclaimer: I've never used replit, so idk really what it offers
No, I haven't used Claude. I'm not sure this is even worth $20 a month to me.
I'm very cheap and my time preference is very low.
@sjors mentioned that he uses free support chatbots to write code for him
Just bite the bullet and pay for a subscription. Give in and join the future
No way! @denlillaapan told me that all of this crap is going to be free soon.
Lies
Be careful what you say because dumb people will hear what they want to.
Ah yes, I'm familiar with this!!
If your main goal is building web apps from prompts, don't limit yourself to Replit. Lovable, Bolt.new, Firebase Studio, and v0 are all worth testing. I've found each excels in different areas, and sometimes combining them gives better results than sticking with one platform.
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Claude Opus 4.8 has done wonders for me.
Google Antigravity is their Cursor knock-off and you can get a fair amount done with the free tier, if you hit limits its like a week or 10 days till it resets.
Haven't played with Google AI Studio but I understand it to be a lighter more prototype focused version for the browser.
Kiro had a decent free tier last I tried it but that was awhile ago, it was good for planning which make your build tokens go further, could make the plan there and move it to something else to execute.
Replit was actually the only thing I've ever paid to try and wanted my money back, thought it terrible, couldn't understand the hype.
Any editor that lets you bring your own key is a great no-KYC/email option combined with PPQ.ai - just pay sats for tokens. Cursor sucks at BYOK so I need to try Zed next.