Replit Agent for MVPs: honest review

What worked

• The marketplace shipped in five hours, auth and payments included.
• Deployment is genuinely one click, and previews are stable enough to demo.
• Cost stayed under $20 for all three projects combined.

Where it broke

The scheduled scraper hit rate limits its agent didn't understand, and we spent longer debugging its retry logic than we would have writing it. For anything with real infra needs, Replit still asks you to know what you're doing.

Verdict

Best-in-class for weekend MVPs and internal tools. Not a replacement for a real backend once your product has real users.