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  • Replit alternatives fall into three lineages, and the useful move is to pick across them instead of inside one: browser IDEs that hand you a machine (GitHub Codespaces, CodeSandbox, Coder), agent builders that write the app for you (Lovable, Bolt, v0, Firebase Studio), and plain hosts that run whatever comes out (Vercel, Railway, Render, Fly.io).

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A pivot is often just the polite word we use with investors when the first company is dead and we have decided to build another one. And that is fine. Not because failure is noble, but because luck needs exposure: every market you enter, every product you ship and every channel you test is one more surface where something unexpected can land.

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LinkedIn post sizing depends on the post type, and ads follow separate specs. A photo needs a width to height ratio between 3:1 and 4:5, ideally 1080 pixels wide, and 5 MB at most. A video must stay between 1:2.4 and 2.4:1 and under 5 GB. A document has no page size, only 100 MB, 300 pages and the same size for every page. Article, newsletter and event covers use 16:9.

The best AI for marketing is two purchases made in order, not one product picked off a list: a general assistant that researches, drafts and reasons with you, then a publishing app that holds the access tokens for your channels. No assistant posts to LinkedIn or Instagram by itself. Both platforms put publishing behind permissions only a reviewed application can hold.

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