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title: "Building a News App with Replit Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-news-app-with-replit-agent-a-step-by-step-guide-t0q730okr
source_url: https://neon.com/blog/building-a-news-app-with-replit-agent-a-step-by-step-guide
type: article
source: "Neon"
published: 2026-07-09T06:57:27.844Z
updated: 2026-07-09T06:58:20.938Z
tags: ["postgresql", "crawling", "ai-assisted-development"]
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# Building a News App with Replit Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide

**[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Replit Agent is an AI-powered development tool that lets you build full-stack apps using natural language prompts. This walkthrough covers building a Hacker News scraper app step by step: setting up Replit Agent, generating a project plan, auto-building a Flask/SQLAlchemy backend scraper, connecting a Postgres database (powered by Neon), creating a frontend, and deploying — all with minimal manual coding.

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