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Software & DevOpsDone with Replit Agent Jun 27, 2026
Build a midnight-vanishing social media app with Replit
A user built a complex social app with vanishing posts, media, DMs, groups and AI characters using Replit, asking whether anyone has finished such a project.
- What They Did
- One commenter said they used Replit to build a fairly complex social web app around a fixed rule: every post disappears at midnight in the poster’s timezone. They described shipping support for image, video, text and link posts, DMs, and public, private and hidden groups, plus AI character accounts that users can tag; the only human handoff they mention was abandoning a freelance-built prototype and rebuilding it themselves on Replit in spare time.
- How It Went
- They said the Replit version was built in two months, was being used by close to 300 people, and was far better than a prior outsourced prototype. Their comparison point was a six-month, $7,500 freelance build they called clunky and unusable.
- Worth Knowing
- Their main practical claim is cost and speed: spare-time rebuilding on Replit took two months and, by their estimate, cost less than a decent mobile phone.
Try it yourself with Replit Agent
Build a social app where posts, media, and DMs vanish at midnight in [timezone]. Start with just accounts, posting, and the midnight deletion job, and stop to show me a working version before adding [groups/AI characters/DMs]. Keep a written list of what is done and what is left so I can track progress.
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