Product design question

Design an onboarding flow for a first-time user building an app with Replit Agent.

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What this question tests

Onboarding design for a first-time, likely non-technical user encountering an AI coding agent for the first time.

Define the user: someone with an idea for an app but no coding background, trying Replit Agent for the first time.
Identify the biggest early risk: an empty prompt box is intimidating, and a failed first attempt can cause immediate churn.
Design the first step as a guided prompt, offering example ideas or a short set of clarifying questions instead of a blank text field.
Show visible progress while the agent builds, such as a live preview updating step by step, so the wait does not feel like a black box.
End the first session with a small win: a working, shareable app link within minutes, even if simple.
Define success metrics: percentage of new users who reach a deployed, working app in their first session, and time to that first success.

Treats the blank-prompt problem as the central onboarding risk and designs specifically against it with guided starters.
Uses a visible build process to build trust and reduce perceived wait time, rather than a static loading spinner.
Defines the 'aha moment' concretely as a working, shareable app rather than a vague 'user is engaged'.
Proposes a measurable time-to-first-success metric, which is the standard way to evaluate onboarding for build tools.
Considers a fallback path if the first generation fails, to avoid losing the user immediately.

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