Jason M. Lemkin built real-time dashboards on Replit that pull data from WordPress, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Salesforce. He automated tracking follower counts and sponsorships across multiple platforms, and says the aggregated data gives an AI agent better context than a human would have.
First time in my entire career as an entrepreneur, executive, founder, CEO, with Replit, for the first time I have dashboards that, that benefit me.
They're all, listen, so-and-so just made all these posts on. And so you can kind of see, so we connect little pieces to then bring in and amplify the work of the individual, which creates a dashboard that doesn't exist on the market, right? So when we're talking about dogfooding and building some of these things, and where I think the enterprises are really winning, it's like, hey, We have this system, this system, and this system, but those systems don't really talk to each other, you know?
And I think— and now we can kind of unify that.
One of the best use cases for RepliQ.
But to your point, some of these, like, some of the things— so I had— we had an executive admin who, her only job, frankly, for 4 years was to spend hours every week going, logging into WordPress, logging into Twitter, logging into LinkedIn. How many followers does Jason have? Put it on a spreadsheet and track it. Some weeks she hated it. As time went by, it was menial and she didn't do it. And then I, and then, you know, it's funny, one of the first Replit projects I did was, can I automate it? Then I did it again, like a couple weeks ago, and it's epic. And now I have dashboards for the first time in my entire career as an entrepreneur, executive, founder, and CEO with Replit. For the first time, I have dashboards that, that benefit me. Mm-hmm. We run a headless Salesforce in type of inside of Replit inside of our 10K agent. So I can see every sponsorship, every deal, every ticket flowing through the system in real time. I'm not gonna log into Salesforce and find a dated dashboard that's never been updated. I'm not gonna log into a marketing— I just don't have that patience. Now I have dashboards for me.
Yep.
Just for me for the first time ever. I mean, um—
And all that context now is an agent.
It's pretty powerful. What?
And all that context is now an agent. So that's the reason why agent can write something that's better than a human because it has— this entire, like, context for our show.
I think underdiscussed is how tools like Replit democratize APIs. Completely underdiscussed. APIs until 6 months ago were for developers. It's underdiscussed. But because of APIs, you can build anything. Yeah. So you can build anything with an API. So if I want a dashboard out of Salesforce data, I can build it in Replit now versus impossible before. I'd have to hire a developer.
You mentioned—
So we will all build apps on top of APIs that, and use APIs in ways that no one thought when they built pre-AI APIs.
I guess I'm wondering like what advice would you have for folks, businesses out there in terms of changing their services, their value proposition to adapt to this new world?
