By Elke Porter | WBN Ai | June 9, 2025
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Founded in 2016 as a online integrated development environment (IDE), Replit creates software via AI with a platform called Agent. Replit was co-founded by the Jordanian programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and designer Haya Odeh in 2016. What started as a vision to democratize software development has grown into a billion-dollar platform serving over 30 million users worldwide.

What Replit Does

Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment for cross-platform collaborative coding. Unlike traditional development setups that require extensive configuration, "Starting a new project goes from countless hours of setting up a development environment to the two seconds it takes to start up a new repl in your browser." The platform eliminates technical barriers, making coding accessible to everyone from beginners to experienced developers.

The platform's breakthrough innovation is Replit Agent, an AI system that revolutionizes how applications are built. Replit Agent is an AI tool that not only writes code but also handles everything from setting up environments to deploying apps. Imagine telling the agent to build a guestbook for your website and watching it generate code, set up a database, and deploy the app in just a few minutes.

How to Use Replit

Getting started with Replit is remarkably simple. Users can access the platform through any web browser without installing software. The interface allows instant creation of coding projects ("repls") in multiple programming languages. For AI-powered development, users simply describe their application idea to Replit Agent in natural language, and the system handles the entire development process from coding to deployment.

Success and Future Impact

The data tells a compelling story - teams using Replit AI Agents report a 47% reduction in time spent debugging and a 31% increase in successful first-time deployments. More significantly, junior developers reach productivity milestones 2-3 months faster when working alongside these AI coding assistants. Replit boasts over 30m users, has secured $200M in venture funding, and was recently valued at $1.2B.

The platform continues evolving with features like autoscale deployments, mobile app development capabilities, and integration with services like GitHub and cloud storage platforms. As Replit pushes toward its mission of empowering the next billion software creators, it's transforming not just how we code, but who can code, making software development truly accessible to anyone with an idea.

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