I don't see how repl.it doesn't get burned doing that. You could host my entire ELK stack and Postgres database... what would the resource limits be? What would the cost be?
I think repl.it is still at the growth and scale stage. Actual profitability probably won't matter much for another couple of years. (They run on Google Cloud so the costs are pretty insane without VC funding.)
Okay this is irrelevant to the discussion but I just typed in `github/mevdschee/2048.c` in the address bar expecting Firefox to perform a Google search but it instead lead me to the repo! What!
If you type something that is not a valid/existing domain, Firefox will try to append .com and/or prepend www. in an attempt to get a valid domain. If that fails, it will do a search.
You can configure this via browser.fixup.alternate.* in about:config.
Yup, I can confirm it doesn't play nice with Ad blockers for some reason because it worked on chrome and Firefox on my android phone, but did not work with Firefox focus
However, Repl.it is different in that we're focused on speed and minimal configuration. You don't even need to login to clone a repo and start it.
The URL structure is repl.it/github/<GitHub path>
Try this 2048 implementation in C: https://repl.it/github/mevdschee/2048.c
(You can even run it on your phone!)