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Replit + Powabase

Build and host on Replit. Keep the data, auth, and agents on Powabase.

Replit's Agent writes and hosts full-stack apps from the browser. Give it your project URL and Service Role key, or install the skill in the Repl's shell, and it builds straight against your Powabase backend.

Quick start

Three steps and Replit is building on Powabase.

  1. 1

    Create a Powabase project

    Create a project at app.powabase.ai and open the Connect dialog (top-left in Studio). Copy the Project URL and the Service Role (Secret) Key. The Service Role key reaches everything: the agent and AI endpoints, plus full database access. Keep it on the server and never put it in the browser.

    The Powabase Connect dialog showing the Project URL, Anon key, Service Role key, JWT secret, and Database URL
    The Connect dialog in Powabase Studio.
  2. 2

    Add them as Repl Secrets

    Put the Project URL and Service Role key in your Repl's Secrets so the Agent can reach Powabase. The key stays server-side; don't reference it from client code.

    Replit Secrets
    BASE_URL=<Project URL>
    API_KEY=<Service Role (Secret) Key>
  3. 3

    Brief the Agent

    Tell the Agent what to build on the Powabase REST API. The examples below are sized for real products, not toys.

Example apps

Real apps, each from one prompt. Copy any of them and give it to Replit.

RAG support chatbot

Ingest our product docs, help center, and resolved tickets into a knowledge base, embedding on upload. Expose a support agent that answers with inline citations, streams over SSE, and hands off to a human when confidence is low. Add email and Google sign-in, isolate every conversation per organization with row-level security, and ship it as an embeddable chat widget.

Internal knowledge assistant

Index our wikis, runbooks, and exported threads into a knowledge base, chunking and embedding on upload. Expose an agent that answers with citations and respects per-department access, keep it fresh with scheduled re-indexing of changed sources, and add SSO sign-in plus an analytics view of unanswered questions.

AI help desk

Model tickets, organizations, and agents with row-level security, and auto-triage incoming tickets with an agent that predicts category and priority and drafts a reply from the knowledge base. Escalate low-confidence cases, run SLA timers as scheduled jobs, add email auth, and provide a live queue dashboard.

Sales CRM

Model companies, contacts, deals, and activities in Postgres with row-level security per team and roles for reps and managers. Build a pipeline board with stage tracking, an activity timeline, and semantic search across notes, plus a dashboard of weighted pipeline and win rate. Wire OAuth sign-in and an audit log of every change.

News monitoring app

Pull RSS feeds and news APIs on a schedule, deduplicate and embed each article, and run an agent that clusters related stories, summarizes them, and tags entities and sentiment. Let users define watchlists and alert rules, isolate data per workspace, and deliver a realtime feed plus a daily email digest via a cron job.

Invoice & receipt automation

Accept PDF and image uploads to storage, then extract vendor, line items, totals, and dates with an extraction agent and write validated records to Postgres, routing low-confidence fields to human review. Add approval workflows, per-team access control, exports to accounting formats, and a searchable archive.