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Isenberg: Bolt builds apps in seconds that once cost millions
“We're at the stage where you can literally take, like, a website app idea you have, Throw it into Bolt, and it's going to design something for you and build it for you in a matter of seconds. Something that you'd have to hire a team of designers and engineers …”
Text-to-app AI builders like Bolt create polished UIs with broken features
“I just think generally text to app builders are over building everything or completely setting everything up as an overbuilt tool. But actually all the features are under, under built. So if you ask for like a Shopify, a Spotify clone with Bolt, it'll spit out…”
Isenberg: Traditional SaaS is imploding, creating opportunities for AI coding platforms
“Because SaaS is kind of imploding, and there's just a lot of opportunity to go and use platforms like Bolt, Lovable, Cursor Replit and start building audiences, marrying that software together and start building businesses.”
Simons: Build LLM features incrementally with minimal initial prompts rather than bulk
“Especially, especially when you're dealing with stuff that's going to be like more complicated functionality. Like for design changes, I'll often just, I'll just kind of like, I'll be like looking at the designers creating a list in, in one shop message. I'm l…”
Isenberg: Codex is more technical than Lovable or Replit, but more valuable
“Codex It does feel a little more technical than your lovable or your replet or your bolt. But if you can stay with it the output I think is super, super valuable.”
Greg Isenberg ranks Replit alongside Lovable and Bolt for vibe coding
“I'm putting it like lovable bolt.”
Simons: StackBlitz was preparing to shut down in 2024 before Bolt
“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…”
Isenberg: Grok 4 Code Mode Rivals Bolt, Lovable, and Replit
“So this is similar to how, you know, if you're going to use something like a bolt or a lovable replet, it's going to do something similar. Now you have this with grok four as another option for you to go and go and do this.”
Bolt and Lovable remain overrated for users lacking proper prompting discipline
“If you have tried Bolt and Lovable, it's overrated if you don't know how to prompt properly, and it's underrated if you know how to give, prompt it and give it context.”
AI builders like Lovable and Cursor will adopt task-based UIs
“And the lovables and bolts and curses of the world are probably going to introduce a to-do list task-based UI in the future because it just kind of, it makes a lot of sense.”
Isenberg: Bolt and Lovable Interfaces Feel Calmer Than Firebase Studio
“What I love about Bolt or Lovable or some of these others is that it's, it just feels a lot more calm. And like my heart rate is, is a bit higher right now. Like I feel like I'm going to do something wrong.”
Greg Isenberg: We build live product prototypes during meetings using AI
“Sometimes what we'll do is I'll put, you know, we'll have a product meeting and in the meeting we'll literally use replet or bolt. Or lovable to actually, you know, build what the prototype looks like, and then be like, what do we think about this by the end o…”
Isenberg: AI Tools Enable Newsletter Creators to Build and Sell Software
“And now with AI, not only could you find a SAS tool you can build one, right? So you can use tools like rep, rep lit, like bolt, like V zero like lovable. And actually go and create these tools yourselves. And that's another beauty about a newsletter business,…”
Isenberg: Bolt caters to non-technical users more than Cursor
“And I found that Bolt has been more geared towards non-technical people.”
Ras Mike: AI Coding Platforms Will Add Direct BaaS and Stripe Integrations
“So they're going to have templates and integrations. So integrations with like these backend as a services, and then an integration directly with Stripe. So setting up payments, few prompts, setting up authentication, whatever, few prompts.”
Simons: Users have launched full-stack production apps with Stripe and Supabase via Bolt
“We have people that have launched real products just using Bolt at this point where they're like taking Stripe for, you know, subscriptions and like using Supabase to authenticate and like, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can a hundred percent buil…”
Simons: Start AI coding prompts by describing the 'spiritual vibe'
“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”
Isenberg: Cursor and Bolt cannot solve product optimization or customer retention
“Just because you know how to build a product doesn't mean you know how to build a product that retains and drives Engagement and word of mouth. So those, that's a whole separate ability of product optimization that cursor or bolt or whoever or whatever isn't g…”
Greg Isenberg discloses investing in Bolt's latest funding round
“I invested in Bolt in the last round.”
Simons: Bolt aims to throw world's largest hackathon for Guinness record
“So, we're trying to throw the world's largest hackathon and set a Guinness World Record”
Simons: Bolt plans to introduce one-click setup for recommended backend providers
“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.”
Simons: Break AI coding prompts into small tasks to easily roll back errors
“If you tell the AI to do like a ton of different things and it does a lot of them right, but then one of them wrong, then you don't want to roll back, but you know, that's the only, you're gonna have to manually change the code yourself. So that's the benefit …”
Simons: At least a dozen Bolt users have acquired paying customers
“There's at least a dozen people that have launched stuff that have said, yep, I've had my first customer or, you know, first dozen customers or whatever at this point from bolt”
Simons: StackBlitz uses Cursor to build Bolt and Bolt to scaffold UI
“We use cursor to build bolt, you know, like in our own code base. And we use bolt to like scaffold out UI.”
Simons: Firebase and Supabase work best with Bolt for real-time backends
“Right now, like we actually recommend people to use Firebase or Superbase. They just kind of tend to be the ones that, that really work the best with Bolt. They have kind of off built in, they have real time data storage and synchronization.”
Simons: Bolt Builds Applications In-Browser and Deploys Directly to Netlify
“That's the other kind of cool thing about this is that it's actually doing this build in your browser, uploading it directly to Netlify, and we can go ahead and view it here.”
Simons: Bolt will add file locking to stop LLMs modifying files
“So, so one of the things we're going to be adding is get a slot locking file. So the LLM will not modify stuff.”