Podbit · My First Million
Amjad filmed a simple iPhone video announcing Replit Agent — the world's first end-to-end AI coding agent — framing it as an 'early preview' borrowed from gaming. Day one: $1M ARR. Day two: $2M. In two days, Replit beat its previous total growth.
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Amjad Masad launched Replit Agent in September 2024 with a simple iPhone video, positioning it as an 'early preview' to set appropriate expectations for a semi-broken product.
When Amjad posted the Replit Agent demo video, Andrei Karpathy (former Tesla AI head, early OpenAI) retweeted it calling it a 'feel the AGI moment,' validating the breakthrough.
After the Replit Agent demo, researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic privately told Amjad they didn't realise their own models were capable of end-to-end coding.
The day Replit Agent launched, it generated $1M in ARR; the second day added another $2M.
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Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
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