Bolt.new
“Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words.”
by StackBlitz
Our review
Bolt.new by StackBlitz builds full-stack apps in the browser from a prompt, with a live preview and deployment, no local setup needed.
Pros
- Fast from idea to live app
- Great for non-developers
Cons
- Complex apps can hit token limits
Being used for
- Writing and debugging code32 posts · X · HN · HN
- Building websites and landing pages8 posts · X · HN · HN
- Building apps and MVPs4 posts · X · HN · X
Based on 38 public posts on X and Hacker News that describe using it · checked Oct 23, 2026
Also does
CodeGood fit
Generates and runs full-stack code in the browser with a live preview.
Limitations
- Code: Builds whole apps from prompts; to work in an existing codebase, Cursor or Claude Code fit better.
Use cases · Hear from users
Real posts from people using Bolt.new on X, sorted by engagement (English first).
Hey @gregisenberg curious how you come up with your Idea Browser ideas... this is almost exactly what I built for the @boltdotnew Hackathon👀 Some of the facts on the page are the same as the ones I used in my hackathon entry video... https://t.co/o0Ml9seVik
20 likes · 3 reposts · 6 repliesView on X ↗I am very critical of the products I use, and the products I have used. I tried @boltdotnew yesterday after @EricSimons was proudly talking about their improvements to generative UI. I have to say I am more than impressed. Its simply better than @Tempo_Labs and @lovable
24 likes · 1 reposts · 3 repliesView on X ↗I built this website responsiveness checker with https://t.co/D9ZWDRiTwW in under a minute by writing no code at all! Here's the link to the tool: https://t.co/dxIyHSWSiS #buildinpublic #nocode #lovable #bolt.new #vibecoding https://t.co/TopRGGI1n0
6 likes · 2 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗Today I tried to create simple photo collage app. I used @boltdotnew and @cursor_ai . Spent 2 hours for vibe coding the same app on different platforms. #buildinpublic who is winner ? 🔁 - Cursor (left) 🖤 - Bolt (right) To see source code and prompt, read ⬇️ https://t.co/Iotrvrgo…
5 likes · 1 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗The final sass I built with @lovable is this! In the today's session of 1 hour vibe coding, I tried different tools such as @Firebase studio, @boltdotnew & @lovable out of these 3 the clear winner is Lovable. If you know any other tool then drop it below. I'll try! https://…
5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗I built an EXPENSE TRACKING AI Agent. Essentially a personal SaaS platform. It can take in bank statements, UPI statements or manual inputs. Then-classify them using AI. And, Summarize them alongwith a dashboard. I used @boltdotnew for that alongwith @supabase as the backend.
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let's imagine i've been living under a rock the last 10 weeks - kinda years in the age of ai. my go to workflow would still be -> start /w lovable/bolt.new -> get code -> iterate with cursor + cursor rules. what have I missed in ai dev prod?
2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗I tried to make a landing page with @boltdotnew to win the challenge. I asked ChatGPT to make the perfect prompt, and this is the output. After discovering a problem with Firefox, I switched to Chrome, and then I loved to build with https://t.co/R8gtHaqT4V https://t.co/07Ycd8…
1 likes · 2 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗Exploring new tools to streamline my development workflow! This week, I used Cursor 1.0 Bugbot for a code review on my Bolt project, and the results were fantastic. The feedback was quite thorough and presented in a very clear, well-structured manner. It truly felt like a collab…
3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗Hey guys! 🚀 For the @boltdotnew hackathon I built MuseAI→ Personal AI art tour guide: 🎨Snap a photo of any artwork 🤖Instantly get details & context 🎧Listen to audio narration 🗣️Ask follow-up questions Bolt.new+GPT-4 Vision+ElevenLabs. @levelsio @EricSimons @gregisenberg https…
2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗Loved this feature where we can save our prompts in Bolt ✨ Let's go @boltdotnew 🚀 Before this feature, I used to save all my favourite prompts in an app that I built using Bolt and supabase 😊 https://t.co/WBAYPYSOEQ
1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗I tried @boltdotnew; it was powerful and amazing. I also used the @cursor_ai code editor. The combination was awesome, and websites can be built in minutes. I used TypeScript, and for material, I used Material UI, @shadcn, and Chakra UI. I will soon make the repo public.
0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗LLM based website generators are best tool I used this year. I tried more than 50 to test its capabilities. I tried @v0 and @boltdotnew and only thing I still want to see is better integrations. Integrations such as auth provider @clerk and better DB connections. They conne…
0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗Just spent 3 weeks battling obscure errors in a browser-based dev environment. After hours from my day job. I am not a coder or developer btw. I started w/Bolt.new, switched to Stackblitz. Switched to Cursor. Wrote one prompt. Boom — it worked lol
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