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Simons: AI reduces a month of engineering time to five minutes
“What would take a month of engineering time Can take literally five minutes.”
Simons: Bolt Hackathon broke world records with 130,000 participants and 1M apps
“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.”
Simons: AI will augment workers rather than replace them
“Most people think AI is going to replace them, but in, in reality, it's just gonna augment them and supercharge them.”
Simons: Software engineers lag behind entrepreneurs in adopting AI tools
“I think a lot of software engineers have been kind of late to the game on trying to adopt AI tools. And also the way that they're kind of approaching is very different than someone who is you know, kind of entrepreneurial in nature.”
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…”
Simons: Conversational voice AI eliminates the friction of diet tracking apps
“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…”
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…”
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”
Simons: Non-engineers gain massive alpha by mastering LLM prompting
“For people that are like indie hackers or like bootstrapping or just building side projects, especially people that are not like you know, seasoned engineers or something, right? There is just a ridiculous amount of alpha in becoming good at like, Getting a fe…”
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: Weight Coach wins $100,000 in total Bolt Hackathon prizes
“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.”
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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.”
Simons: YC startups are using Bolt to generate landing pages
“We've had YC startups already. They've come to bolt to build their landing pages and stuff”