How To Build A $10M AI App In Literally 30 Seconds (this is insane)

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Episode 658: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Replit founder Amjad Masad ( ) about the massive opportunities with AI Agents.

Show Notes:
(0:00) Replit origin story
(9:27) Replit's 10-year overnight success
(12:27) Rejected 4x by YC
(17:28) Personal essays from Paul Graham
(20:17) "i hacked into my university to change my grades"
(25:55) Rickrolling into YC
(35:25) Shaan builds a food tracking app in 30 seconds
(43:19) Magic School: An AI application for educators 4M users in 1 year
(47:31) Amjad on Agents
(49:53) Building moats in a goldrush
(54:53) Replit is Shopify for software creators
(1:05:11) The most gangster story in Silicon Valley


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• Replit –
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• Do What Makes The Best Story –
• Magic School AI –
• 11x AI –
• Synthesis Tutor –
• The Sovereign Individual –
• 7 Powers –


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54 thoughts on “How To Build A $10M AI App In Literally 30 Seconds (this is insane)

  1. Spot on with the conundrum of challenges Shaan! Literally started working with Replit a few weeks ago. Thanks for bringing Amjad to the pod!

    1. totally garbage database. are you getting kickback from hubspot for leads. low quality sorry.

  2. My first project on Replit will be a plugin for YouTube that removes ‘like’ and ‘you know’ from Silicon Valley- centric videos.

  3. Excellent video and watching this a second time already.

    The intro / preview is fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥

  4. This broke my brain. Quite literally, the biggest problem any “idea guy or gal” has ever faced. I’ve loved computers and software since Apple II days, but never fell in love with the idea of spending years on coding a solution. This changes everything.

    1. @thornfalk  yes, they do. It starts with an idea and if an idea never comes nothing can ever happen thereafter.
      You’re only “technically wrong” because you left context out.

  5. Pure gold. This guy is choosing the long game over the quick game..the former giving power to the people instead of the status quo bros. And he knows it will bank in the long run. As well as bring many many great projects forward. How very inspiring and yes I’m in total agreement- make the choice that writes the best story.

  6. Replit is one of the best code innovation I have ever seen. As a 25 year professional programmer, those problems are the reason I hate picking up a new language. Replit solves it so well.

  7. Am I the only one that’s both wildly amazed while simultaneously knowingly underestimating how huge this is

    1. I’ve listened to the first 20 minutes and I still have no idea what he did or what they’re talking about!

  8. Brilliant and insightful episode! I don’t apologize for keeping Amjad longer for half an hour 😂

  9. Used Replit in 2023 with out the help of an engineer (as a PM), loved it. I can only imagined its 100X with AI agents now.

  10. The idea is great and I have used Replit for the last 5 days. I loved what I saw. It was very easy to tell the AI Agent what I wanted and it suggested steps, additional features to add, built the database, handled migrations, etc. However, the basic authentication page I asked for never worked. 5 days and 4 separate projects later, I abandoned it. Every change introduced new bugs. The technology will get there, but it isn’t as simple as they make it sound.

    1. I have used chat to code and it worked. I guess it’s how you tell it things in bits and pieces

    2. @@Live-Unfiltered When you say it worked.. it generated 100s of source files, intermixed/interdependent, using up to date libraries/dependencies, and it all compiled and deployed it for you in the cloud, complete with database, authentication, secure certs, load balancers and ability to scale as more users buy in to your app?

    3. I don’t think we’ll have a pipeline of applications getting doing completelly out of propmts. Building a solution for specific cases is pretty much the hard part. Actually, most of the things we want, probably have already done templates to cover it. That’s the easy part!

    4. //The technology will get there, but it isn’t as simple as they make it sound.//

      I haven’t used their product, but I do not know this technology. It’s deceptively simple conceptually, but the engineering samples they keep passing off as finished goods are all really terrible.

  11. As a software engineer who now works with agents daily, I can promise you…the software the ai is writing for you right now is full of bugs if you’re building anything complex enough to be of value. You need someone behind the wheel who understands how software works to nudge the ai in the correct direction and clean up the occasional dumb mistake that it struggles with. For now. This time next year… 🤷‍♂️

    1. Right? AI did teach me python and some c++ as I coded but wow. People think they’re going to have an AI made app and then that’s it. Just wait until a user reports a bug and the AI rewrites half your code to solve something that has nothing to do with the bug. 😂
      You HAVE to have a basic understanding of coding and learn as you go. There’s nobody telling AI to write an app and throwing it up for sale and thinking they’re done. They’re in for a real surprise, if that’s what they’re doing.

      AI is a tool, not a final answer, and thats where the difference lies.

    2. @WolfCatalyst  Can you imagine the shear amount of bug bounties this could create if this is used in corporate?☺️

  12. Wow, the algo blessed me with this video. Great to hear Amjad’s story! Very inspiring.

  13. I loved this episode. I have no idea how this came across my feed (I live in the UK) and haven’t heard of you guys but listening to this after a long and full day at work close to burnout has been the best thing I have done today. Thank you!

  14. That was fantastic. I am about to spend a lot of time playing around with Replit. Thanks so much.

  15. This podcast is a gem for everyone in Tech. Thanks for bring this out for public .

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