Every source GILD analyzed, newest first. Each says who the source is, how it knows, whether it still applies and which findings it counts toward. Open a count to see only its sources.
Source
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Negative
I tried participating in Bolt HackathonX post
In a Bolt hackathon, Bolt ignored instructions from a prepared base prompt or kept asking what to build. Broken into steps, the result was only okay, while Claude matched his design in one iteration.
Positive
Comment on: The five orders of ignorance (2000)Hacker News comment
The author's healthcare agency CEO now sketches UI ideas in Bolt.new with stand-in data on the author's own React stack, replacing week-long build-and-reject cycles.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: I built a D2C supply chain for my village's Makhana farmers using BoltHacker News comment
Built a direct-to-consumer storefront for local Makhana farmers with Bolt.new for rapid in-browser prototyping, deployed on Vercel, with a WhatsApp checkout and no database yet.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?Hacker News comment
Rewrote a restaurant POS in Vue with Bolt plus ChatGPT, prompting component by component then wiring Supabase. Most was done in days, testing and fixes took a month, and customers liked the release.
Positive
16-Step Audio SequencerGitHub repository README
Kinberg's repository describes a mobile drum machine built with Bolt.new, with a live bolt.host URL, responsive controls, and iOS audio recovery. The README documents a complete React and Web Audio implementation and testing setup.
"Mobile-optimized drum machine and audio sequencer. Made with Bolt.new…"
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: Show HN: We built our own technology radarHacker News comment
CEO of a three-person team says their backend developer used Bolt to build frontends for the backends they wrote, but none of it reaches production, where they mainly use Cursor.
Negative
Comment on: Dear Boltdotnew, Fuck YouHacker News comment
An SEO iteration on a simple React site dropped package.json, and fixing the error required tokens. Onboarding asked for payment despite selecting pro, which felt unrealistic.
Positive
Comment on: Dear Boltdotnew, Fuck YouHacker News comment
Bolt is the author's platform of choice for quick prototypes with coherent, beautiful frontends, though Bolt recently halved the free daily token allowance from 300K to 150K.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltHacker News comment
The author's team mainly uses v0 and tries Bolt and Lovable so product owners and architects can prototype epics for stakeholders. The generated code is discarded.
Mixed
Static Figma Files Aren't Cutting It: What Bolt vs. Lovable Taught Our Design Team (June 2025)Engineering blog post, Valtech EU Design newsletter
Bolt handled a vague dashboard brief well and got layout and interaction right with little visual finesse, but its Figma imports replicated designs incorrectly.
Positive
Bolt Automations by SquashGitHub repository README
Kuan built a Chrome extension with Bolt for the Bolt hackathon. The extension switches Bolt to Discussion Mode, sends Discord completion notices, and generates optional AI summaries.
"Built with Bolt for Bolt as part of the World's Largest Hackathon presented by Bolt…"
Counts toward
Mixed
How I Built A Task Management Tool For Almost NothingPersonal blog post, Techdirt
Bolt built a first version from a plain-English prompt, but importing the Lovable GitHub repository into Bolt failed repeatedly, so Masnick continued elsewhere.
Positive
Building a SaaS MVP in One Day with Bolt.new - A Founder-to-Founder GuideCompany blog post, Software on the Road
Software on the Road builds a one-day Bolt prototype with each new client before writing production code. Quinteros tells clients that prototype is usually a throwaway or starting point, and the agency rebuilds products in custom code once they need to scale.
"We use Bolt.new as our secret sauce to spin up realistic prototypes that we can then refine and eventually rebuild in production code."
Positive
Comment on: AI Helped Me Build a Product, Shape a Business Idea, and Write Its Own CodeHacker News comment
A former consulting firm owner rebuilt the Linkeme.ai interface with Bolt.new and its backend automation in Make.com.
Counts toward
Positive
#54: How leading designers are riding the AI prototyping wave | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)Podcast episode show notes, Supra Insider
Amplitude went from early AI experiments to giving every designer a Bolt license. Newton walks through Amplitude's prototyping path and where Bolt and v0 outperform Figma.
"Amplitude has gone from early AI experimentation to giving Bolt licenses to every designer."
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: LLM Based Spark ProfilerHacker News comment
A co-founder reports that the entire frontend of their LLM-based Spark profiler was vibe-coded with Bolt in a few days.
Counts toward
Positive
Show HN: I built a bio link app 100% with AIHacker News thread
Built a link-in-bio app with drag-and-drop blocks and page analytics entirely with Lovable and Bolt on Supabase, and was impressed by the result.
Positive
Bringing your own component library to bolt.newX post
Ramp is bullish on Bolt for designers and PMs to prototype and get user feedback before engineering takes over. Its biggest blocker was getting Bolt to use Ramp's internal design system, which the team solved with StackBlitz.
Positive
Comment on: I built a Chrome extension for bolt.new, with boltHacker News comment
A heavy Bolt user who cannot code built a free Chrome extension with Bolt that reached 1,500+ users in three weeks. Stresses planning docs up front to get consistent results.
Positive
CommitRank.AIGitHub repository README
Sutton's CommitRank.AI README identifies Bolt.new as the builder for a live GitHub ranking product, alongside Convex and TanStack. The app analyzes profiles, scores developer impact, and produces AI-generated developer stories.
"Open Source project built with Convex.dev, TanStack on Bolt.new…"
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: One Month Without AIHacker News comment
The author's app was started on bolt.new and then improved over one to two years with various models. The author has not looked at the code and has barely tested it before release.
Positive
Post: Built a Tolkien lore companion with Bolt.newReddit post
Built a Tolkien lore search tool with AI answers in Bolt.new, published it on bolt.host, and was surprised how far Bolt took the idea.
Negative
Post: super disappointed... did not know tokens expireReddit post
Paused an app to document it first and came back to find a large balance of saved tokens gone after about two months, and plans to take the work elsewhere.
Positive
Comment on: LLMs reward expertiseHacker News comment
In the author's experience Bolt and Replit are quite good at taking an idea from zero to a first working version, which is what they exist for.
Counts toward
Negative
Post: Stopped using BoltReddit post
Canceled Bolt after months of issues: only a browser extension got finished, two larger projects stopped loading, and the cost became unrealistic. Claude then got both sites live within a month.
Mixed
Post: Anyone else seeing regressions in larger bolt projects?Reddit post
On an app past 15,000 lines, fixing one issue often brings back an older bug or breaks something else, so much of the author's token spend goes to recovering from regressions.
Mixed
Post: Anyone else find bolt.new falls apart once your project gets big? (and some tips)Reddit post
A heavy Bolt user found it strong for the first features, then saw it lose track of earlier work and touch unrelated files. It looped on one auth bug and hit project-too-large errors as the app grew.
Negative
Post: Bolt has proven itself worthless to me!Reddit post
Planned a spreadsheet app in 10 phases with a prompt per phase and bought extra tokens, but ended with endless errors and a project that would not deploy. Only landing pages have worked.
Negative
Post: Bolt Support = non-existent supportReddit post
Bolt.new rewrites code files without warning, so the author exports the codebase after every change to check and restore files before publishing. A support ticket went a week without reply.
Mixed
Comment on: What I learned from building a Search Intelligence tool using 3 AI buildersHacker News comment
Ran the same refined prompt in bolt.new and Lovable. Bolt.new got the author moving fast but stalled when pushed, while Lovable reached a working prototype in the first session.
Mixed
Post: Bolt New vs Claude - should developers even care about Bolt?Reddit post
A developer who builds with Claude found Bolt confusing at first but surprisingly good at producing something functional fast, and is unsure whether to trust it beyond quick MVPs.
Positive
Post: Fully built with Bolt.new - Published in IOS, Drawing app for kidsReddit post
A consultant with no coding background learned to build in Bolt and published a kids drawing app to the iOS App Store, built entirely with Bolt.new.
Negative
Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit: who's leaking the most Supabase data?Security research, securityscanner.dev
Found critical Supabase access issues in 21 of 289 bolt.host apps (7.3%), mostly forgotten quick prototypes, and an anon-writable table in a StackBlitz-run workshop console.
No opinion stated
Open preview in separate tab does not workGitHub issue on stackblitz/webcontainer-core
Opening a running Bolt project in a separate tab shows a blank page and an editor that took too long to respond, in Chrome and Brave, where it used to work.
Counts toward
Positive
Post: Launched my SaaS, fully built using Bolt! The free Opus 4.6 usage helped a lot hahaReddit post
Launched a SaaS website and app built entirely in Bolt from Figma designs, after more than 150 prompts and millions of tokens, switching from Sonnet to Opus during a free promotion.
Negative
Ask HN: 7 days down, zero human support from Netlify/Bolt.new (paid account)Hacker News thread
After accidentally deleting a Bolt.new (Netlify) project, the author's production site stayed down over seven days. Paying US$17.88 for Pro to restore it brought only bot replies to six tickets.
Positive
Post: Built a complete Zillow data extraction SaaS with Bolt.new - frontend AND backendReddit post
Built a Zillow data tool for a client in about three days without writing code. Bolt wrote the React front end and about 1,100 lines of Edge Functions, though locking against double charges had to be asked for.
Mixed
Post: Bolt and Anti-Gravity, my thoughts and hopes for the futureReddit post
A long-time Bolt user downloaded a site's repository and had Google Antigravity agents change and review it, getting more done in one evening than in a week in Bolt. Plans to keep Bolt for simpler work.
Mixed
Post: Bolt.new vs Cursor AI vs ClaudeReddit post
Builds a small web app in Bolt with GitHub for version control and Vercel for hosting. Runs out of credits quickly even on small bug fixes and is weighing Cursor or Claude instead.
Negative
Post: bolt overwriting env fileReddit post
Bolt keeps overwriting the project's .env file with a wrong Supabase URL after every restart, even with the file locked and a rule against changing it.
Negative
Post: Bolt always serves SPA fallback HTML, making per-page SEO metadata impossible. Any workaround?Reddit post
Bolt hosting returns the same index.html for every route and ignores prerendered pages, so shared links show generic titles and descriptions, and Bolt keeps resetting the build command to vite build.
Positive
Post: I built my first app. A LinkedIn profile analysisReddit post
A marketer who had built automations in Make.com started building small apps in Bolt and shipped a first sellable one, a LinkedIn profile analysis tool for B2B marketers.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Beddel Protocol: Sequential Pipeline Executor (YAML)Hacker News comment
bolt.new installed the author's npm package and generated a working chatbot with it from a single prompt.
Negative
Ask HN: Startup launch destroyed by Bolt.new's AI. 10M tokens gone, no responseHacker News thread
Says Bolt's AI burned 10M tokens on unrequested changes, ignored instructions, left Netlify function remnants that broke payments at launch, and support never resolved it, forcing a full rebuild.
Mixed
Post: I love Bolt, but my token usage is getting out of hand for a simple e-com store.Reddit post
Finished an e-commerce MVP that looks as intended, but each change to the cart and checkout breaks something else and burns tokens. The author is weighing a Shopify rebuild with the Bolt site as a template.
Mixed
Post: The 100% battery charged feeling in bolt.Reddit post
Past version 140 of a project, sat through 10+ fixes that broke about 23% of the app and 15+ prompts to recover. Bolt also spent 2.1M tokens on thinking before it planned and built the next feature well.
Negative
Post: Discontinuing the Use of Bolt Due to Repeated IssuesReddit post
Stopped using Bolt after several weeks on professional projects because it ignored or only partly applied instructions, rewrote files unpredictably, and broke working code with recurring bugs.
Positive
Post: Built a personal finance app that shows you what money is actually "yours" vs spoken forReddit post
A Bolt user since May 2025 built and launched SpokenFor.money, a bill-aware finance app, with Bolt and is testing it with family users.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Can you share what you built using Cursor/Agentic IDEs?Hacker News comment
Built TenDayWeekCalendar.com, a public calendar web app, with Bolt.new and wrote no code by hand beyond small bug fixes.
Mixed
Choosing your AI prototyping stack: Lovable, v0, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Magic Patterns comparedNewsletter, annaarteeva.substack.com
Moved the workshops off Bolt. Credits its framework flexibility (Angular, React Native) and GitHub sync, but finds the UX rough and its output buggier.
Negative
Vibe Coding Showdown (2025): Base 44 vs. Replit vs. v0 vs. Bolt vs. Lovable vs. RorkEngineering blog post, Aqua Voice blog
Bolt's Tumblr clone signed the tester in but threw a database error on the first post and fell back to pasting image URLs, failing the out-of-the-box test.
Mixed
Can AI Really Build a Full-Stack Mobile App? A Brutally Honest Test of Bolt.new V2dev.to post
Found the Supabase integration fast and a big time saver in a 34-minute Expo build, but spent 8 minutes debugging code the AI knew was faulty and calls it hard for non-coders.
No opinion stated
v15.5.x not working on WebcontainersGitHub issue on stackblitz/webcontainer-core
Next.js 15.5.3 throws a runtime InvariantError in WebContainers, the environment Bolt runs on, while the same project runs locally. The issue was still open in October 2026.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Vibe coded a Workout Wrapped Website to summarize my yearly gainsHacker News comment
Built a workout-summary site with bolt.new and deployed it with Netlify in under an hour.
Positive
Comment on: A code quality battle between 6 AI agentsHacker News comment
Gave the same simple task to Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor and Claude Code. Claude and Bolt produced the best quality code by a decent margin.
Negative
Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltHacker News comment
Every trial app the author built with Bolt ended in a doom loop where each fix brought back an earlier break.
Positive
Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltHacker News comment
Impressed after building a label maker and a StyleX playground in Bolt with 99% of edits by prompt. Advises reverting mistakes without trying to fix them, and directing how code is structured.
Positive
From Zero to Monetized iOS App in 10 hours with Bolt.new, Expo, and RevenueCatNewsletter, AI Engineering Report
Took a flashcard app from idea to the App Store in about 6 tracked hours, then synced to GitHub and finished in Cursor. Bolt had added unneeded camera dependencies that App Store review flagged.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: I tried vibe-coding builders tools so you don't have toHacker News comment
Built a small project in each of 11 app builders and rated Bolt.new for its Figma import, which turns designs into working pages with sign-in. An easy payments add-on was still missing.
Positive
Comment on: RoomStateHacker News comment
Built RoomState, an app for sharing a room's availability with roles and public links, solo in Bolt.new with React, Supabase, and RevenueCat.
Mixed
Comment on: Base44 sells to Wix for US$80M cashHacker News comment
Built a Hacker News version of the RES browser extension for Reddit in about 90 minutes with Bolt, but real apps collapse under their own weight after the second or third feature.
Negative
AI Dev ToolsHacker News thread
Reports that bolt.new and Lovable stop working past a certain level of complexity: circular fixes bring back similar bugs, and new features get harder to add through prompts alone.
Mixed
Comment on: Ask HN: What is your ultimate AI-assisted coding setup?Hacker News comment
Finds Bolt amazing at design and the most efficient way to prototype a loose UI idea, with app-wide changes, but a token hog that can drain a million tokens per instruction.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Career Plateau: Looking for Advice on How to Break ThroughHacker News comment
Built a whole app that now earns money with bolt.new, without writing code by hand.
Mixed
Show HN: I made a Bolt.new sidebar extension that saves tokensHacker News thread
Frustrated that error fixes and code modifications used up Bolt tokens, built an extension that routes fixes through a free LLM, saving the author millions of tokens.
Negative
Beyond the Prompt: Finding the AI Design Tool That Actually Works for DesignersIndependent evaluation, Roger Wong's design blog
Scored Bolt 43 of 100 on a checkout prototype, a plain design that missed the confirmation page. A re-test two weeks later showed a blank app twice until his credits ran out.
Negative
Comment on: Firebase StudioHacker News comment
Has had a lot of trouble getting Supabase integrations to work on Bolt.new and Lovable, which prompted a try of Firebase Studio.
Counts toward
Mixed
I made simple Git client to use inside Bolt.newHacker News thread
Struggled to bring assets into Bolt and save code to GitHub, so built a small git client that runs inside the Bolt.new WebContainer terminal.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Show HN: Compare success rates, and services across fertility clinics in the USHacker News thread
Built a site that compares US IVF clinics on CDC data. bolt.new produced the design and most of the React code, Supabase held the data, Ruby scraped it, and Vercel deployed it.
Counts toward
Positive
Show HN: I Made an AI Birthday Poem GeneratorHacker News thread
A product manager who does not identify as a programmer used bolt.new for the initial design and prototype, then Cursor for full product development.
Positive
Comment on: Build instructions for Lego QR (POC project)Hacker News comment
Used bolt.new to generate the frontend for a trial API project. It occasionally needed steering away from over-eager code generation but left the author impressed.
Positive
AI-Driven Prototyping: v0, Bolt, and Lovable ComparedNewsletter, addyo.substack.com
Has built full-stack and WASM-heavy apps in Bolt. Trusts it to generate higher-quality UI with less back and forth than Lovable, and values file locking and targeting.
Pages from StackBlitz, used to check facts for every group.
Explains that most tokens go to reading and syncing project files, so larger projects use more per message, and documents the Free daily cap, two-month rollover, and reloads.
Documents the Free plan's hosting limits and Made in Bolt badge, Supabase on paid plans, and upgrades between Pro tiers.
Recommends planning first, choosing Standard or Max by task, preferring buttons to prompts, and avoiding repeated Attempt fix clicks.
Explains that large projects and long chats fill the context window, and recommends project knowledge, agents.md, clearing context, and splitting large files.
Plan Mode discusses the project and writes plans without changing code and uses fewer tokens than Build Mode.
Describes the Standard and Max agents; Bolt picks the models behind them, and Max uses more tokens for complex work.
Bolt supports JavaScript frameworks with Node.js backends, Expo for mobile, Chromium browsers, and Safari with read-only Code view.
Bolt Database is the default for new projects, and version history does not restore databases.
Pro and Teams can start on Supabase, connect a Supabase project, or claim a Bolt database into Supabase; there is no way back from Supabase.
GitHub sync commits every working change, pulls outside commits every 30 seconds, supports branches, and imports existing repositories; merges happen in GitHub.
Publishes to bolt.host on every plan and privately or to custom domains on paid plans; Free sites are public.
Free hosting stops at 10 GB and 333,333 requests a month; paid plans include 30 GB and 1M requests with pay-as-you-go up to a spending limit.
Paid plans run a token-free security audit of code and database from the Publish menu; every plan can check database rules.
Mobile apps use Expo and publish to TestFlight, the App Store, and Google Play; projects must be started as mobile apps.
The Model training setting is on by default except in the EU, UK, and Switzerland and applies to content from October 7, 2026.
Teams plans are billed per member, give paid members their own tokens, and add admin, integration, and visibility controls.
Source index
Every source GILD read, with the original address and the context used to count it. Open a finding to filter the full cards above. On smaller screens the index lists each source once by name, cohort and date; its full record above carries the address, context and findings.
| Source | Original URL | Author and context | Who | Published | Review date | Applies | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I tried participating in Bolt HackathonID s3-02 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | DevDiary (@devdiary0x), former software engineer and solo founderself-described: Solo, a hackathon app built from one prepared base prompt | Very small team | Published Oct 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: One Month Without AIID dc-35 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | XCSme, Builder of UXWizz self-hosted web analytics (HN profile)self-described: Solo, Ultimidi app (unreleased) | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Built a Tolkien lore companion with Bolt.newID rd-14 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | lnkkonito, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, The Legendarium Companion, a non-commercial lore search tool on bolt.host | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: super disappointed... did not know tokens expireID rd-19 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Conscious-Item-837, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, an app paused to write documentation | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: LLMs reward expertiseID dc-34 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | redhale, Hacker News commenterself-described: Zero-to-one builds with Bolt and Replit | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Stopped using BoltID rd-13 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ihateyouse, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; designer by professionself-described: Solo, three responsive apps and one browser extension | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Anyone else seeing regressions in larger bolt projects?ID rd-12 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | PeanutButterSoln, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, an application of 15,000+ lines | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Anyone else find bolt.new falls apart once your project gets big? (and some tips)ID rd-11 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | No_Birthday8126, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a growing app with auth and payments | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt has proven itself worthless to me!ID rd-10 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | 007denton, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a scaled-down online spreadsheet tool | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt Support = non-existent supportID rd-09 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | HandSharp1093, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a published app | Individual practitioner | Published May 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: What I learned from building a Search Intelligence tool using 3 AI buildersID dc-33 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | noashavit, Early-stage startup marketer (HN profile)self-described: Solo, search intelligence tool | Individual practitioner | Published May 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt New vs Claude - should developers even care about Bolt?ID rd-18 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Flat-Librarian-609, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; developer who builds with Claudeself-described: Trying Bolt next to Claude | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Fully built with Bolt.new - Published in IOS, Drawing app for kidsID rd-08 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | BraveFee9283, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; consultant outside softwareself-described: Solo, Drawly, a kids drawing app on the App Store | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit: who's leaking the most Supabase data?ID ir-28 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | securityscanner.dev/ | securityscanner.dev, a security scanning service (no individual byline)self-described: Scan of 1,169 deployed vibe-coded apps, including 289 on bolt.host, against 200 YC company apps | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Open preview in separate tab does not workID s3-05 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Noahprog, GitHub user building in Boltself-described: Opening a running Bolt project in a separate browser tab | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Launched my SaaS, fully built using Bolt! The free Opus 4.6 usage helped a lot hahaID rd-07 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | isthisalreadyinuse, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; background in designself-described: Solo, determine.app, designed in Figma | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Ask HN: 7 days down, zero human support from Netlify/Bolt.new (paid account)ID dc-32 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | encremagique, Hacker News commenterself-described: Production website encremagique.org | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Built a complete Zillow data extraction SaaS with Bolt.new - frontend AND backendID rd-06 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | AffectionateShine404, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; automates workflows for property management companiesself-described: Client project, a Zillow listings tool with Stripe and Apify | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt and Anti-Gravity, my thoughts and hopes for the futureID rd-05 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Ilikethishandle, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; works in networkingself-described: Solo, a few apps and web pages | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt.new vs Cursor AI vs ClaudeID rd-17 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | AdinityAI, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a small web app on Vercel with GitHub | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: bolt overwriting env fileID rd-21 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Silver-Mix-3209, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a site reading from Supabase | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: The five orders of ignorance (2000)ID dc-31 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mexicocitinluez, Solo developer at a healthcare agencyself-described: Healthcare agency EMR. CEO sketches UI ideas in Bolt.new | Very small team | Published Jan 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Bolt always serves SPA fallback HTML, making per-page SEO metadata impossible. Any workaround?ID rd-04 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | EuphoricMaintenance6, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: React and Vite site with hundreds of SEO landing pages, hosted on Bolt | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: I built my first app. A LinkedIn profile analysisID rd-16 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | kokasexton, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuilders; works in marketingself-described: Solo, SignalScout, a LinkedIn profile analysis app for marketers | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Beddel Protocol: Sequential Pipeline Executor (YAML)ID dc-30 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mesenga, Author of the Beddel packageself-described: Testing own npm package in Bolt | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Ask HN: Startup launch destroyed by Bolt.new's AI. 10M tokens gone, no responseID dc-29 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | therealcapi, Hacker News commenterself-described: Startup launch, app with payments | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Post: I love Bolt, but my token usage is getting out of hand for a simple e-com store.ID rd-02 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Tough_Climate_6033, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, e-commerce MVP for the author's own business | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: The 100% battery charged feeling in bolt.ID rd-15 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Disrupt-Linus, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, a long-running project past version 140 | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Discontinuing the Use of Bolt Due to Repeated IssuesID rd-01 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Ok-Big4000, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Several weeks of professional projects | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 14, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Post: Built a personal finance app that shows you what money is actually "yours" vs spoken forID rd-20 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Quirky_Bed_9071, Reddit poster in r/boltnewbuildersself-described: Solo, SpokenFor.money, a personal finance app | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: I built a D2C supply chain for my village's Makhana farmers using BoltID dc-28 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Vikkyv, Developer in Barsoi, Bihar (India)self-described: Solo, bootstrapped direct-to-consumer Makhana store | Very small team | Published Nov 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Can you share what you built using Cursor/Agentic IDEs?ID dc-39 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | kentich, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, TenDayWeekCalendar.com, a live calendar web app | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 23, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Choosing your AI prototyping stack: Lovable, v0, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Magic Patterns comparedID ir-27 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | annaarteeva.substack.com/ | Anna Arteeva, designer who runs AI prototyping workshopsself-described: Used Bolt in a first AI prototyping workshop before switching tools | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Vibe Coding Showdown (2025): Base 44 vs. Replit vs. v0 vs. Bolt vs. Lovable vs. RorkID ir-26 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | aquavoice.com/ | Finnian Brown, Aqua Voiceself-described: The same Tumblr-clone prompt run in six app builders | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?ID dc-27 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | saxenaabhi, Hacker News commenterself-described: Restaurant POS product, rewritten from Laravel to Vue | Very small team | Published Oct 14, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Can AI Really Build a Full-Stack Mobile App? A Brutally Honest Test of Bolt.new V2ID ir-25 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Aaron K Saunders, mobile developer and YouTube creatorself-described: Solo, a full-stack React Native (Expo) and Supabase app built in a recorded 34-minute session | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| 16-Step Audio SequencerID l3a-06 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | github.com/ | Joshua Kinberg, Senior Product Leader building platforms for NBC News, HBO, and Marvel (GitHub profile)self-described: A mobile audio sequencer built with Bolt.new and published on bolt.host | Technical leadership | Published Sep 26, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Show HN: We built our own technology radarID dc-26 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | leo_researchly, CEOself-described: Three-person company. Technology radar | Very small team | Published Sep 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| v15.5.x not working on WebcontainersID s3-04 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | manarbenkraouda, GitHub user building on WebContainer environments such as Bolt.newself-described: A Next.js 15.5.3 app that runs locally and fails in WebContainers | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Vibe coded a Workout Wrapped Website to summarize my yearly gainsID dc-25 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dominickgurnari, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, workout summary site from gym tracking data | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Dear Boltdotnew, Fuck YouID dc-23 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | emir, Founder of Kommunity.com (HN profile)self-described: Trying no-code website builders, simple React site | Very small team | Published Aug 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Dear Boltdotnew, Fuck YouID dc-24 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | bhasinanant, Founder, B2B AI application layer hardware product (HN profile)self-described: Prototyping | Very small team | Published Aug 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: A code quality battle between 6 AI agentsID dc-22 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | tim_sourcery, Hacker News commenterself-described: Code quality comparison of six AI coding agents | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 15, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | Listed, no finding position |
| Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltID dc-19 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | tezza, PM; runs generative-ai.review, reviewing AI tools (HN profile)self-described: Trial apps | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltID dc-20 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | janpot, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, label maker app and StyleX playground | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: The Architecture Behind Lovable and BoltID dc-21 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | exiguus, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team. Product owners and architects prototyping epics | Very small team | Published Jul 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Static Figma Files Aren't Cutting It: What Bolt vs. Lovable Taught Our Design Team (June 2025)ID ir-22 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | valtechdesign.substack.com/ | Valtech EU Design, Valtech's EU design teamself-described: Valtech design team testing Bolt and Lovable on the same pharmaceutical dashboard brief and on Figma import | Professional team | Published Jun 26, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| From Zero to Monetized iOS App in 10 hours with Bolt.new, Expo, and RevenueCatID ir-21 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.aiengineering.report/ | Bill Prin, software engineer who writes AI Engineering Reportself-described: Solo, Systematic, a flashcard iOS app built during Bolt's 2025 hackathon | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 25, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | Overall signalSpeed to a Working App: PositiveCode You Can Take Over: PositiveEngineers or an editor take over the codeReview before real usersCan a Bolt-built app run in production, or is it a prototype to rebuild?: Runs in productionDoes Bolt save time overall once fixes and rework are counted?: Time saved |
| Comment on: I tried vibe-coding builders tools so you don't have toID dc-38 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rub-columbia, Hacker News commenterself-described: Built a small project in each of 11 app builders | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: RoomStateID dc-43 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ricar, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, RoomState, built during the Bolt hackathon | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Base44 sells to Wix for US$80M cashID dc-18 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | pc86, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, hobby apps | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| AI Dev ToolsID dc-37 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | shaunross, Hacker News commenterself-described: Working with bolt.new and lovable.dev | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What is your ultimate AI-assisted coding setup?ID dc-17 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | muzani, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, character generator app | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 13, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Bolt Automations by SquashID l3a-04 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | github.com/ | Kingston Kuan, co-founder of Hebbian Robotics (YC company page and GitHub profile)self-described: Squash, a Bolt workflow extension built with Bolt for the Bolt hackathon | Very small team | Published Jun 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| How I Built A Task Management Tool For Almost NothingID ir-20 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.techdirt.com/ | Mike Masnick, founder and editor of Techdirt, a non-developerself-described: Solo, a personal task management tool started in Bolt and Lovable | Very small team | Published Jun 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Building a SaaS MVP in One Day with Bolt.new - A Founder-to-Founder GuideID l3a-01 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | softwareontheroad.com/ | Santiago Quinteros, Founder and CTO at Software on the Roadself-described: Software on the Road, a software agency that starts client projects with a one-day Bolt prototype | Technical leadership | Published Jun 1, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Career Plateau: Looking for Advice on How to Break ThroughID dc-42 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | vaderyondu, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, a monetized app | Individual practitioner | Published May 29, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Show HN: I made a Bolt.new sidebar extension that saves tokensID dc-16 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ChrisCodes-Bolt, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, Chrome extension built with Cursor and Bolt | Individual practitioner | Published May 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: AI Helped Me Build a Product, Shape a Business Idea, and Write Its Own CodeID dc-41 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | buzzbyjool, founder of Linkeme.ai (Hacker News commenter)self-described: Linkeme.ai, a LinkedIn content product | Very small team | Published May 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Beyond the Prompt: Finding the AI Design Tool That Actually Works for DesignersID s3-03 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | rogerwong.me/ | Roger Wong, designer and author of a design blogself-described: Eight prompt-to-code tools scored on one shopping-cart checkout prompt, April 16 to 27, 2025 | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| #54: How leading designers are riding the AI prototyping wave | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)ID l3a-02 | Talks & Videos | suprainsider.substack.com/ | Will Newton, Principal Product Architect at Amplitudeself-described: Amplitude, rolling Bolt out to every designer for prototyping | Organization-wide | Published Apr 21, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Firebase StudioID dc-14 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | the_king, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, app with Supabase backend | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 10, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| I made simple Git client to use inside Bolt.newID dc-15 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ingvar77, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, moving assets and code between Bolt and GitHub | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 10, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Show HN: LLM Based Spark ProfilerID dc-13 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | emgeee, Co-founderself-described: Startup, frontend of an LLM-based Spark profiler | Very small team | Published Apr 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Show HN: Compare success rates, and services across fertility clinics in the USID dc-36 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | thathoo, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, YourIVFPath, a clinic comparison site on CDC data | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Show HN: I built a bio link app 100% with AIID dc-40 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | iliaddh, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, Simplink, a link-in-bio app | Very small team | Published Mar 31, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Bringing your own component library to bolt.newID s3-01 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Roland Shen, then at Rampself-described: Ramp, getting Bolt to build with Ramp's internal design system so designers and PMs could prototype on real components | Professional team | Published Mar 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: I built a Chrome extension for bolt.new, with boltID dc-12 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | skipsterdev, AI product lead and builder (HN profile)self-described: Solo, a Chrome extension that adds features to Bolt | Very small team | Published Mar 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Show HN: I Made an AI Birthday Poem GeneratorID dc-11 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | yonatan-horan, Product Managerself-described: Solo, birthday poem generator site | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 21, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| CommitRank.AIID l3a-05 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | github.com/ | Wayne Sutton, Startup Programs at Convex (GitHub profile)self-described: CommitRank.AI, a GitHub profile ranking app built with Bolt.new, Convex, and TanStack | Technical leadership | Published Jan 24, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Build instructions for Lego QR (POC project)ID dc-10 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | RelaySpang, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo, a frontend for a trial API project | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| AI-Driven Prototyping: v0, Bolt, and Lovable ComparedID ir-11 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | addyo.substack.com/ | Addy Osmani, engineer and author (byline: Member of Technical Staff)self-described: Osmani's own builds, from full-stack React and Tailwind apps with auth and storage to apps using in-browser AI models and WASM | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 11, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 26, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| TokensID pd-01 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| BillingID pd-02 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Maximize token efficiencyID pd-03 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Manage project contextID pd-04 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Plan ModeID pd-05 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Choose an agentID pd-06 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Supported technologiesID pd-07 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| DatabaseID pd-08 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Supabase for databasesID pd-09 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| GitHub for version controlID pd-10 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Publish your projectID pd-11 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Bolt Cloud hosting plansID pd-12 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Check your project's securityID pd-13 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Expo for mobile appsID pd-14 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Account settingsID pd-15 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Teams plansID pd-16 | Product Documentation | support.bolt.new/ | StackBlitzOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
