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https://repl.it/api is an API to execute arbitrary code in a sandbox from anywhere on the web. People use it to build code interview sites and programming tutorials. Initial customers came from our open source work where I included a link to it.

It's now basically running itself and I don't do much with it because I recently quit my job and made this into a company and I don't see the API being a big part of the business.



I see that you have now become a classroom solution(?). How is your experience with this market and if I may ask, what tool/feature has now become the main source of income.


We haven't started monetizing yet, but we are growing really fast -- there is a lot of dogma in edtech about making money so it's hard to predict.


Thank you for repl.it classroom, it's amazing. I am worried about getting too invested in it though, will what is free become paid for at some point?


Hey, I'm glad you like it! We will not take any features away -- we'll just introduce new paid features ;) I'm curious, where do you teach?




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