StackBlitz

13 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2024 by Alessio Fanelli · said 18 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Eric Simons (9), Shawn Wang (8), Steve Ruiz (1)

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2024 15 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode

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Everything said about StackBlitz, oldest first

Dec 2, 2024 positive
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Fanelli: Bolt Generated $4M in Revenue in Its First Four Weeks
“You made four million of revenue in four weeks.”
Alessio Fanelli Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 11:45 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 positive
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Simons: Token add-ons drive 20% to 30% of Bolt's revenue
“You can also buy additional tokens, you know, just with usage based billing effectively. And that's accounting for an additional 20, 30% of revenue that's coming to the company.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:13:25 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 bullish
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Simons: Bolt.new Doubled StackBlitz's Seven-Year Traffic in One Week
“Within, within a week, we, you know, we were doing like, you know, double the amount of traffic, and StackBlitz had been online for seven years, and we were like, what?”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 0:58 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 bullish
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Simons: StackBlitz Browser OS Clocks In at One Megabyte or Less
“These Docker two awesome things will give you an image that's like, oh, 60 to a hundred meg, you know, maybe more, you know. And our OS, you know, kind of clocks in, I think we're in like a, maybe, maybe a megabyte or less or something like that.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 20:25 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 positive
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Simons: Bolt.new is selling primarily to non-developers
“For the first time in the company's history, we're selling primarily to almost non-developers.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:06:44 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Simons: Bolt.new operates at near-zero gross margin on inference
“We're not actually taking, you know, to date on the revenue we've done, we have not really taken a margin at all on this stuff.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:13:10 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Simons: StackBlitz Shelved Bolt in Early 2024 Due to Model Limitations
“We had the idea for Bolt earlier this year, you know, we haven't really shared this too much publicly, but like, you know, we actually had tried to build it with some of those, you know, state of the art models back in January, you know, February, you can kind…”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:24 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024
Insight
Simons: Games and IDEs Are Ultimate Stress Tests for Platform Bugs
“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…”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 23:16 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 neutral
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Friedman: StackBlitz must choose between Bolt and WebContainers or raise $1B
“I think like if you ask me what my advice, I think you have three options. One is to focus on bolt. The other is to focus on the web container. The third is to raise one billion dollar and do them both. I'm serious. Like, I think like otherwise. You need to ch…”
Itamar Friedman Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 52:15 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 neutral
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Simons: Hundreds of thousands of non-developers tried building apps on Cursor
“It turns out there are hundreds of thousands of people that we have seen that were using Cursor and we're trying to build apps with that where they're not traditional software does, but we're heavily leaning on the AI.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 10:01 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 bullish
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Simons: Bolt.new grew to 20,000-30,000 customers in six weeks
“We went from you know, call it zero customers to, you know 20, 30,000 kind of, you know, in, in six weeks”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:05:07 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Simons: StackBlitz made Bolt.new core and system prompts open source
“And so actually the core of Bold.net, we actually made open source. So you can actually go like, go in and check out like the system prompts and et cetera, and you can run it locally and whatever have you.”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 30:15 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Jun 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Swyx: Pre-AI WebAssembly infrastructure allowed StackBlitz to unlock Bolt
“StackBlitz worked on WebAssembly containers for four years and got, was, I mean, they were making some progress, but like they, you know, nothing is compared to Bolt, which did the unlock. But like right now they can capitalize and just work on the agents beca…”
Shawn Wang Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 1:39 Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
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