I'll Teach You How to Save $100s on Replit

Okay, so I'll be teaching you guys how you can  save a lot of money on Replit. And bear in mind,   this video may be taken down by them because they  don't want me to teach you this kind of stuff   because it will hurt their overall revenue. But  I've been seeing a lot of people in the comment   section of my previous video wasting a lot of  money on Replit and not actually seeing results. For example, this person spent $120 and  the agent circled around for hours and   they didn't have any results by the end of it.   Someone else said they spent $500 on Replit on   their first project and the debugging process  drove them crazy. And a lot of other people   are saying stuff like they ran out of money  using Replit spending $50 every other day. So honestly, as I said in my previous Replit  review video, the agent is not there yet,   but I think the rest of the platform is still  good when it comes to hosting and stuff because   it solves a lot of the headaches that people  may have when it comes to hosting. Firstly,

I'm going to talk about why Replit is  so expensive and then teach you the   technique that I personally found myself. So  firstly, Replit is using the Anthropic models,   the Claude models under the hood, which  are made by Anthropic and Anthropic are   charging a markup on their API to Replit,  who are then charging a markup to you. But Anthropic has also made Claude Code,  which is another agent, a coding agent,   and a lot of people say it's like the best agent  to coding agent out there right now. And of course   they don't charge a markup themselves because  Claude Code is made by Anthropic and then they   charge a tiny markup to you. But this is actually  in the form of a subscription with rate limits. So when you're using Claude Code, you either use  a $20 month plan or the $100 month plan or the   $200 month plan. And this is significantly  cheaper than Replit because I showed in my   previous Replit video where I was paying for  the $200 month plan with Claude Code and got   $3,000 of usage out of the $200 month plan.   And if I was doing all of that on Replit,   then I would probably end up  spending over $3,000 on Replit. And that's because Anthropic can just serve  their own model to themselves in their own   products for cheaper than Replit is able  to. And another big reason is that a lot   of these vibe coding startups like  Replit, Lovable, Bolt, and so forth,   they've hit insane amounts of revenue growth,  such as like in this case, Replit is over here.    And I have the screenshot because one of the  investors in Replit, like showed this on Twitter. And what actually happens is even though they've  hit like $150 million of annual recurring revenue,   a lot of this, like about like 90, 95%  of this is going to Anthropic actually,   because they have to pay the model provider that's  powering their agent because they don't actually   have their own coding agent themselves. And  the exact same thing applies for Lovable,   Bolt and other vibe coding tools. They say they've  reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue,   but they're not actually making profit  because like 99 million of those dollars   is actually going to Anthropic,  which is powering their models. So Anthropic is a real winner  here. So you might as well use   Anthropic model through their own  coding agent. And as a short aside,   we've been seeing industry shift where Cursor  and also Windsurf have now actually come out   with their own models that they train  themselves or fine tuned over models of. And that's significantly cheaper to run as  well, because like the person who actually   made a model will always be able to run their  own model for the cheapest. So now that I've

actually explained that context, what you can do  is you can actually use Claude Code within Replit   itself. And this is actually a technique that I  shared about a month ago on my AI Startup School. And I share a lot of techniques  like this. They will be linked   down below. If you're interested in joining it. A lot of people have already joined before,  learned to vibe code and market their own   applications and then reached pretty big  revenue milestones with their applications,   so you may also find it useful.   Anyways, as for the technique,   it involves installing Claude Code within Replit. So you want to go to the Claude Code  website. It will also be linked down   below and you want to copy over this command  that you can see. So when it says copied,   you have it in your clipboard and then  you want to go to your Replit project. So for example, this is a project that I was  making a month ago with Replit to test it out.    And it was really struggling with this project  because like the agent is just not as good and   they don't care if you spend a lot of money on it  because it just means more revenue for them and   it means they'll like raise even more money.   But like I care about saving you guys money. So this is like a much better  approach. So with that command,   you want to press plus tools and files  and then go to shell over here. And this   will basically open up a shell in the  project that you're running on Replit. And you can see that this works properly  because you can write in something like   ls. And you will basically see all the  files that exist on the right hand side,   like client, server, drizzle. config. ts  in this list as well. So like this is   a terminal that's running within the same  directory that you have your Replit files in. And you want to run the command to install Claude  Code that you copied earlier. So then press enter   and then it will ask you for a theme. So choose  dark mode and then it will ask you to sign in. So the Claude account, if you're  using Claude Code, requires a   subscription and the subscription  is $20 a month on the lowest tier,   but you do get some good usage out of it. And  then $100 a month if you want to upgrade to   the high tiers. But I would recommend  starting off with the $20 month tier. So you like go and make your  Claude Code account. For me,   I'm currently on the $100 month tier and I find  that to be sufficient, but many people find the   $20 month tier to be sufficient. And like  I mentioned earlier, this is significantly   cheaper than actually using Replit because  like Anthropic own the model itself. So anyways, where it says select login method,  press enter with Claude account with subscription,   and then it will open a brand new tab on your  computer. So even though it's open a new tab for   us, we actually want to click on this URL instead.   So we want to ignore the new tab, close that new   tab, click on this URL, and then it will open it  up in a new tab for us and then press authorize. And then you should see something like this.   So it says paste this code into Claude Code,   copy, go back to the Replit  tab, paste this in here,   and then press enter. So of course your  code will be different from my code. And now I'm signing into my account and then  press enter. So I'll be logged in as this account,   press enter. And now it will say do you  trust the files in this folder? Yes, proceed. And then I can finally use Claude Code  within Replit. So using my tool HyperWhisper,   I'm going to basically say, Hey, so  what is this project about? Like,   can you break it down for me? And that  will transcribe what I just said. So   there will be a link to that down below  in the description, my HyperWhisper tool. And now it will actually look through  all the project files and figure out   what the project is about. So you  can see that's now reading through   the files. And whilst we're waiting on  that, let me go back to preview thing. So I actually want Claude Code to make an  edit to this design because I don't think   the design here is like very good.   So you can see it told me what the   project is about. And I'm going  to switch to planning mode here. So press shift tab to switch to planning mode  and then say, can you come up with a brand new   design for the landing page for me? Add a pricing  card as well that has a placeholder. And now it's   pasted what I just said, so I can press enter  and then it will basically figure out a plan   for how this should be implemented. And now whilst  we're waiting, it is worth mentioning that I have   a Claude Code masterclass that teaches you every  single thing you need to know about Claude Code. So like I go through every single feature  and basically if you don't like the class,   then you can get a seven day money back  guarantee. And the reason I made this is   because like people really love Claude Code, but  a lot of people were having a hard time getting   started because all the information scattered  across different videos on the internet. I   also do cover some bonus content as well that I  haven't covered before on this YouTube channel. Anyways, you can see that Claude Code has come  up with some questions for us. So we can say,   I don't know, like creative and playful  for the design. So let me press down. I'm gonna have three tiers. So  let's have a free, basic, pro,   enterprise and then it will be  like monthly and yearly plans.    And what section should we have? So we have  a hero section, we have a feature section. Let's have some FAQ as well, and then press  submit. And then Claude Code will think for   a bit and then come up with this plan for  us. So this is a plan that it came up with. So let's press auto accept edits, but  actually let's pause it by pressing   exit and switch the model to a faster model.   So currently we were using Sonnet-4. 5. Let's   switch to Haiku because it's like much faster  because I want the video to be filmed faster. And you also won't hit into your  rate limits quite as much when   using this model. And then I'm just  going to say continue. Press enter. So it's currently still underway. So it says,  can I run npm run check? And I'll say yes and   don't ask again, press enter. And it will  actually make a. claude folder for itself,   which has the settings. So if I click on this  folder, I can see this is like the permissions   that it allows itself to use. And you can do all  the same things that you can do with Claude Code. So you can like make a claude. md, press enter.   And then I can basically write my own claude. md. But anyway, it will quickly run  the build command to check that   everything works properly. And  literally the advantage here   is that we're not paying as we go.   We're saving on so much more money. So it says it's now done. So  I can go back to preview. And   this is a design that it came up with. So this is like quite nice. It has a  pricing section that we had earlier.    It has this like flip button too. So this looks better, I think. Page is quite  small. Let me open it up in a brand new page here. And then it will look nicer on a bigger screen.   Anyways, this is what it looks like now. I should   have got it so I can move the upload your images  to a different section or something like that. And then we can basically press publish  to then publish this project online.    So I'm gonna call it AI Startup School  Nano Portrait. And then press publish. And that will basically trigger the build command  for us and then publish this project online. And   the reason I shared this particular technique is  because I don't think the Replit agent is any good   or cost effective. And I think Claude Code,  which actually made the model that Replit is   using behind the scenes, have made a much better  agent experience and a much better agent itself. Like I use Claude Code literally every single day.   But I do think the Replit infrastructure is quite   good because like you can just publish a project.   It has a database and a couple other things. Like they have built out some pretty  good infrastructure when it comes to   hosting your projects. And it seems  that our project is now published so   I can go to this URL here and  it will open up in a new tab. And this is basically the design improvements  that Claude Code made to our project. And if   you want to rewind any changes because  it did something like crazy or wrong,   then you can just do slash rewind. And  then I can go back to any early point. So for example, if I go back to this point,  it will say, do I want to restore the code and   conversation, restore the conversation, or just  restore the code. And yeah, I'll just do never   mind instead and then press exit. And now I'll  exit out of Claude Code by doing slash exit here. And then if I want to run it again, I can  just run `claude` and then it will launch   Claude Code one more time. Anyways, I  hope you found this video useful. Do

like the video and subscribe to the channel  because it lets YouTube know that this is a   good video and then we can help other  people save money on Replit as well. And if you do want to learn more about Claude  Code, then I cover a lot to do with that in   my Claude Code masterclass that's linked  down below with a coupon code. And if you   do want to learn more about how you can  make money from vibe coding applications,   I do cover a lot too with that in my AI  Startup School that's linked down below.