Amjad Masad is the CEO of Replit, “The Collaborative Browser-Based IDE”. Founded in 2016 and backed by Y Combinator, they’ve raised over $100m on their way to building a great product. I’ve used it myself to tinker on projects, launch things quickly, as well as host the website for my farm.

According to Amjad though, the IDE branding is outdated as their visions have become much grander. How does this relate to Part-Time Tech?

Replit recently announced their Bounty Program where anyone can post a software bounty to be completed by someone on the platform. While still a very early product, I think bounties represent one glimpse of what the future of software engineering and part-time work could look like.

Naturally, when most people think of working part-time, they think of their full-time job done in