Desktop for Windows, Projects from Chat & TikTok Ads | This Week in Replit (Oct 9, 2026)

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Original video: Desktop for Windows, Projects from Chat & TikTok Ads | This Week in Replit (Oct 9, 2026) · Channel: Replit · 06:54 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Enterprise AI applications, Software engineering with AI, AI developer tools, Local and open-source models

Summary

Replit announced a Windows desktop app in preview that lets Agent build and run apps locally, while its reasoning still takes place in the cloud. A new unified chat can access multiple projects, read and search files, delegate tasks, and bring data from different apps together. The episode also introduced a TikTok Ads MCP for creating, managing, and optimizing campaigns from Replit. The hosts framed these releases as ways to make Replit useful across more workflows, from local hardware tinkering to cross-project work and marketing.

Key points

Replit Desktop for Windows is in preview, launching in partnership with Microsoft and Nvidia.
Agent can build and run apps on a user’s PC, including native Windows apps; Agent’s thinking still happens in the cloud.
Locally run apps operate in secure sandboxes isolated from the rest of the computer.
Local access may support workflows involving files, USB devices, hardware projects, and locally run AI models.
A single Replit chat can connect to projects, read and search files, and assign tasks across them.
Users can reuse features across apps and pull together data from multiple projects for comparison and charting in chat.
The new TikTok Ads MCP lets Agent create ad assets and copy, set up campaigns, and help monitor or optimize them.
The hosts said the integrations can help users spend more time building and less time navigating separate tools and services.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Replit Desktop for Windows	The hosts introduce the Windows desktop preview, explaining local app execution, cloud-based Agent reasoning, and potential hardware and AI model use cases.
02:07	Working across projects from one chat	Replit chat can connect to multiple projects, search their files, and delegate tasks such as reusing app features.
04:13	Combining data across projects	The hosts discuss pulling data from different apps into one chat to compare results and create charts.
04:43	TikTok Ads MCP	The new integration helps Agent create, manage, monitor, and optimize TikTok ad campaigns from Replit.
06:21	Preview of the upcoming conversation	The hosts introduce a forthcoming discussion about TikTok, creator marketing, and the technical work behind the integration.

Quotes

Agent can actually build and run apps on your own PC. — 00:00

Now, you can chat and connect to all of your projects, read your files, search across them, and even assign tasks to those projects. — 02:38

I’m like delegating tasks to different projects from just one place — 03:40

You can now create, manage, and optimize your TikTok ad campaigns right from Replit with the new TikTok ads MCP. — 04:43

Concepts and entities

Replit, Replit Desktop for Windows, Agent, sandbox, Replit MCP, TikTok ads MCP, Microsoft, NVIDIA, TikTok, ESP32, Meta Ads

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Let’s talk about what shipped this week. First up, Replit Desktop for Windows is now in preview launching in partnership with Microsoft and Nvidia. We already have a desktop app, but that’s basically a window into your existing cloud workspace. Now with Replit Desktop for Windows, Agent can actually build and run apps on your own PC. So, that means you can build native Windows apps and even use AI models on your own computer. Every build runs in its own secure

00:32 sandbox that is isolated from the rest of your computer as well. One caveat to call out here is that Agent is still going to be doing its thinking in the cloud, but the apps that Agent helps you build can run locally. Currently in preview, so if you’re interested, go and join the waitlist. And right now for me, this is part of a bigger theme that we’ve been seeing here. This idea of having Replit meet you wherever it is that you work. We’ve been talking about the Replit MCP and pulling that into other authentic services. And so, I

01:03 think the idea here is like no matter where you’re doing your work, we want you to be able to have access to Replit and have Replit come and help you in the ways that you like. >> Yeah. Well, and unlocking local apps, native apps on the computer is like a big deal. And then being able to access local files and just kind of operate like closer to the hardware is always something that you want to be doing if you’re getting more technical and upskilling into this like technical space. And this is something that you can’t really do from the browser, right? Like the browser is kind of partitioned off. So, like let’s say you want to connect a USB device or maybe you’ve

01:34 seen some of these like ESP32 things that people are building and tinkering with like connecting their 3D printer. All these little things that you might want to do become so much easier if you can like talk to the machine directly. And so, this is a big unlock and I think it opens a lot of use cases that the tinkerers and you know, folks who are fiddling with like hardware and different things are are going to just be really excited to unlock. >> Mhm, 100%. I know there’s a lot of folks out there that are also running AI models locally, smaller models, more efficient, maybe for privacy reasons. So, to be able to bring that in here, that’s huge as well. And I’m also times

02:07 surprised how many business apps I come across that are Windows-based and only run on Windows. So, I would imagine that this would also allow you to work on those apps or create those apps. >> Yeah, 100%. >> So, join the waitlist, folks, and go take desktop preview out for a ride. Also, in other news, you can now work across all of your projects from one single chat in Replit. >> This is big. >> This is huge, right? >> This is big. This needs one of these

02:38 maybe. >> Now, you can chat and connect to all of your projects, read your files, search across them, and even assign tasks to those projects. So, say that you’re building out a feature in one of your apps and you want to extend that to another one, you can have agent do that via the chat, grab that feature, and send it over. Say you have a privacy page for one of your applications and you just want to have that be the case for all of your other applications, you just can do that from chat. Much-requested feature here, especially for folks that are doing a lot more chat

03:10 with Replit. Chat maxing, as the kids like to say. Me and Ramar are going to dig a little bit more into this a little bit later on in the show, so stick around for that. But, yeah, Ramar, I think this is a a big deal, right? Like, >> This is a big deal. We were demoing this the other day and just the ability to open a chat, not go not like go find the project, but literally just go to Replit and start talking to Replit and say, “Hey, I want to mimic this feature from over there.” And then in this other app, and it just did it. It just sent it off into that other app, and I’m like still in the

03:40 main chat. I didn’t even go into the project, right? So, I’m like delegating tasks to different projects from just one place, and that ability is just premium. I think you know, it’s one of those things where you got to like figure out how to get it into your workflow a little bit. I think sometimes we get used to working with Replit a certain way and then you introduce these kind of like optimizations. And so like maybe on these deep dives or as we start showing you some of this stuff, we’ll you know, we’ll share how to get the most out of that. But now you’re kind of like this high-level orchestrator where you can start kind of, you know, just dishing things out to the different projects from a central source and it’s just a big unlock.

04:13 >> Mhm, absolutely. And the other thing that I was playing around with that I’ll show a little bit later is pulling data from those individual apps as well. A lot of our users are building out and they’re data rich, data heavy. And so being able to call those projects and pull it all into one chat and look at data across different types of applications and compare and contrast and then chart everything in chat. >> Yeah, and then you mix it with some of those charts right in the chat. Now you’ve got data that you can pull together from different projects. I want to see how this thing compares to that thing. How’s my user sign-ups on one app versus another? Like there’s all sorts

04:43 of things that kind of come to life again with this. So really like as you go from front to back here, these things that we’ve covered it like you’re just seeing the expansion of Replit into this knowledge space as we talked about like the future of knowledge work and kind of this full stack knowledge work idea where, you know, like you just have so much potential. You just come and ask Replit and it’s going to like help guide you in the direction you need to go. So. >> Another big one, folks. You can now create, manage, and optimize your TikTok ad campaigns right from Replit with the new TikTok ads MCP. Setting up ads can

05:17 be pretty tough, especially if you’re new to it. I can tell you that from experience. Creating campaigns, the assets, videos, copy for everything can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be because Agent has context on that project. And so now with this MCP, Agent can take that context, create assets, write the copy, and set up the campaigns. And the other cool cool thing that I’m seeing with some of our other builders and that are doing similar things with other platforms is that is you can also have Agent optimize those different campaigns and monitor them. So you might have like a whole bunch of

05:48 campaigns you want to see which ones are doing best. You might want to AB test stuff. You can have Agent help you manage all of that. So, they just spend more time on building and less time in figuring out like other platforms and services and how to do ads. We have our special guest coming up in just a bit. Ad Ad Harsh coming on and Sarah as well from our DevRel team to talk to us about this integration and talk to us about what’s happening with TikTok and give us an introduction about that platform and why you might consider that for your go-to-market strategy. >> Yeah, and we we talked about this

06:21 recently again about, you know, like uh what was the name? Was it Victor that was doing the ads? Who Who was >> Austin. Austin with Meta ads. >> Yeah, who was kind of killing it and doing some of this stuff. And so now to be able to open up TikTok is a very powerful platform if you’re growing as a creator and doing the stuff. Experimenting with ads can be like super challenging cuz you got to go learn each platform kind of independently. So, I think it’ll be really interesting conversation. One from the creator side cuz Sarah has such deep insights into like what it takes to be a creator. And then Adarsh coming from the Replit kind of technical side, kind of, you know,

06:54 what does it take to build something like this? What’s the unlock and and kind of just talking about the different features. So, yeah, this is going to be a fun little chat here. >> It’s going to be good.