Replit just did something that I’m very perplexed by (in a good way). I’ve got a simple SEO tool ...

Replit just did something that I’m very perplexed by (in a good way). I’ve got a simple SEO tool ...Replit just did something that I’m very perplexed by (in a good way). I’ve got a simple SEO tool ...

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Mike Higgins

• Dec 19

Replit just did something that I’m very perplexed by (in a good way).

I’ve got a simple SEO tool that I made. It scrapes a target URL, extracts keywords and suggests LSI keyword variations. It’s standard HTML, CSS, JS with the scrape happening on the front end (CORS) and the keywords being sorted using a straightforward algorithm.

I just gave that code to Replit to see what it would do.

And it ripped up everything and rebuilt my app’s logic from scratch. CORS has been replace by a backend server with Axios and Cheerio, the keyword and LSI algorithms have been replaced by GPT5.

It’s better, a lot better. I’ve never seen one of these AI app builders do something like this. They tend to try and stay faithful to what you give them, not run off and build an entirely novel approach like this. So, safe to say, I'm impressed!