Eric Simons

“My recommendation to people is actually to follow all the founders of these businesses. So, V-Zero, Guillermo. Kodak, Sam Altman. Lovable, Anton. Bolt is Eric Simons. Replit, Amjad, et cetera. Follow them, and then see who you believe in. Like, if you really c…”

“The world record for the largest hackathon prior to this hackathon was 66,000 people. On day one, we crossed that number. At the end, we had over a 130,000 people, and over a million new web apps were created in, in that 30 day period.”

“Second place goes to Weight Coach. The second place champion, 75,000 dollars. They also won the 11 Labs AI Voice Challenge. So, total winnings today, a 100,000 dollars.”

“This is a good example of just an app that a lot of people need and I think it would be really hard to do on your own. Like, I've done this, so if you try and, you know, track your dieting, whatever have you, I think the inclusion of AI, whether we can just ta…”

“So, we're trying to throw the world's largest hackathon and set a Guinness World Record”

“Most people think AI is going to replace them, but in, in reality, it's just gonna augment them and supercharge them.”

“What would take a month of engineering time Can take literally five minutes.”

“Last year, in twenty-twenty-four, we were getting ready to shut the company down. When you're dealing with that sort of situation where it's like, are we gonna shut down the company, or what are the other outcomes? We're gonna go and turn over every stone, and…”

“The servers were just melting anthropic. Ran out of GPUs for us. Like Dario emailed me. He was like, listen, we just, we don't have anything more to give you at the times”

“And now just, there's just. You know, thousands of mobile apps being created a day that weren't before.”

“Now it's faster to do this with bolt in code and have a real working software products than Dragging around frames in Figma to actually make a static version of it.”

“And we just kept seeing more and more and more people that were not developers using it to the point where it's like 70, 67% of our users are not developers, right? At this point.”

“I'll just live out of here. And so that's what I ended up doing for maybe like four or five months. I was like living out of this headquarters over on a page mill and El Camino in Palo Alto.”

“Last week, we had, you know, almost 200,000 software composers, you know, we like to call them, that use Bolt to build web applications.”

“We think that, that number should be a hundred million. And yeah, and we, we're on this growth clip it seems like you know, maybe, maybe we'll get there sooner or later.”

“Whenever the next model comes or whenever, you know, one of the AI labs eventually integrates that into their chat products or whatever those companies, you know, kind of tend to go away pretty quickly.”

“It's not going to be, you know, the system prompt kind of a, you know, for those who have done web development, it's kind of like view sourcing on a webpage. Like you can go to google.com, you can view source. No one so far has kind of done that and built anot…”

“The second one are IDEs, because you're talking about actually the virtualizing the actual runtime environment you are in to actually build apps on top of it, which requires sophisticated capabilities, a lot, you know, access to, you know, a good amount of com…”

“I found to just kind of describe, you know, almost at a spiritual level, kind of like, this is what I'm shooting for. You know, that's like, I almost start every single prompt off I do with”

“So we've trained this thing to actually you know, just out of the box, it'll, it'll go and pull stuff from Unsplash. I think a couple other providers as well.”

“In the future in bolt, when you ask something like this, we're going to have kind of recommended providers where it's like, One click to set it up and blah, blah, blah.”