The Replit alternative
that plans it like a product team
Replit’s Agent does every job. Here a team plans first, then builds.
Replit claims read on replit.com, 17 September 2026.
Replit plans in a list.
We plan in boards.
A list describes the pages. Boards are the pages.
The plan is a task list
- Create a booking page with available time slots
- Add a therapist selector and a confirmation step
- Set up a database for bookings and patients
- Send a reminder the day before the visit
- Add a diary view for each therapist
Every Plan mode message is charged.
The plan is the page
Book a slot
ConfirmOpen on Thursday
A patient picks a slot before they make an account, never after.
Retype a line or move a board. Nothing is a message.
Their canvas decides the look.
Ours decides the product.
Theirs shows the design. Ours shows the design and the data.
Replit’s Design canvas
Mockups and running apps. Accounts, data and payments wait for Build.
The HuntingHydra canvas
The data behind the diary
Drawn, not builtbookings
therapists
patients
Every column is on the canvas before Devi writes a migration.
Every Replit fact here
was read off Replit
Read on their own site, and dated.
replit.com/pricing
Starter is free. Core $20, Pro $100. Free Mode on Core spends no credits.
docs.replit.com, Plan mode
A task list you revise or build. Every message is charged.
docs.replit.com, Design canvas
Mockups and running apps on one canvas. You convert a mockup to Build to add a database.
Every seat on a product team,
and you are in all of them.
Seven specialists. You direct all of them. Nadia and Devi are on every project.
Who this is for
Primary persona: Maria and Tom. Two people sharing one pipeline at a twelve-person company. Maria closes, Tom follows up. Neither has ever opened a CRM they liked.
What they are actually buying
- One list both of them trust, instead of two spreadsheets
- Knowing what to do next without a standup to decide it
- Something that survives one of them being on leave
Pain to mirror in the copy
- “Every CRM is built for a sales team of nine”
- Data entry that costs more than the deal is worth
- Reports nobody on a two-person team reads
Competitive frame
Not competing with Pipedrive on features. Competing on the half hour a week it takes to keep it true. The wedge is two people, one list, not “also works for small teams”.
Objections to answer before the fold
- “We already have a spreadsheet” → show the two-column import
- “What happens when we hire a third?” → seats, not tiers
Pipeline
New dealSorted by last touched. Nothing here is a stage nobody uses.
Visual direction for Anouk
- Mode: light, paper-first. This gets read at a desk, not on a phone
- Accent: one colour, used for state and nothing else
- Type: one humanist sans. Numbers tabular, so columns line up
- Density: eight deals on screen without scrolling
Reference
- Linear’s list density, Stripe’s number formatting
- Nothing that needs a second click to read a deal
Open questions before build
- Does a deal belong to a person or to the team?
- Is “won” a stage or a date?
- Do we show currency on every row, or once in the header?
Billing
Invoices
Plan table and invoice list stay two boards, not one.
keep them apart
Four screens to start: Pipeline, Deal detail, Pricing page, Schema. I have put the words on them, so read them before Devi sees any of it.
added 4 boardsBilling wants a plan table and an invoice list, so that is two boards, not one. Drawing both.
added Billing, InvoicesNadiaincluded
Jonah
Deviincluded
Theo
Anouk
Rosa
KitReplit against
HuntingHydra.
Their column comes from their own site.
| Replit | HuntingHydra | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Agent, in parallel on Pro | Seven specialists, one stage each |
| What the plan is | An ordered task list | Boards on a canvas |
| What the canvas holds | Mockups and running previews | Every board, words on it |
| When the data is decided | When a mockup converts to Build | On the canvas, before the build |
| Planning on the free plan | No, Plan mode needs Core | Three days free, planning on |
| Everyday runs on $20 | Free Mode, limits reset every 5 hours | Not metered, on your own model |
| Free tier | Yes, Starter, daily Agent credits | Three days free, every agent on |
| Collaborators | Up to 15 on Pro, 50 viewers | One seat runs all seven |
| Runs an MCP server | Yes, from ChatGPT, Claude or Slack | Yes, your model drives the seven |
| Code in GitHub | Yes, from the Git pane | Yes, from the first build |
Where Replit fits,
and where we take over
The honest split, and our answer to each.
You can start free
Starter has daily credits. Three days here, every agent on, nothing counted.
It builds mobile apps
For the app store, Replit. Here it is the web app on a live URL, with every page agreed before it is built.
Free Mode is a good deal
On Core at $20, everyday Agent work spends no credits. No meter argument applies here.
Teams share one workspace
Pro carries 15 collaborators and 50 viewers. One seat here directs seven specialists.
Hosting and SSO are shipped
Publishing, databases and SSO on Enterprise. Ours ships Postgres, accounts and a live URL, from a schema you saw drawn first.
Still not sure?
Three days free, every agent on. Draw the boards, watch the build, then decide.
What people ask
before they switch.
What is the best Replit alternative?
If Replit builds the wrong thing, plan first. If it works, keep it.
Is Replit free?
Starter is free. Core is $20, Pro $100. Checked 17 September 2026.
Does Replit have a planning mode?
Yes, a task list. Each message is charged.
Replit has a canvas too. What is different?
Theirs is for the look. Ours holds every page and its data before the build.
Can I move a project off Replit?
Yes. Replit pushes to GitHub, and Devi reads the repo before writing anything.
Replit plans in a list.
This builds the boards you approved.
Three days free.