The Bolt Blog
- How to build smarter: a guide to better prompting
Eight prompting habits, priced: what clustered prompting, prompting cues, agent choice, and queueing each cost or save in Bolt.new.
- Becoming his own everything: business orchestration in four movements
Ssebandeke Dullaart built payment rails, dashboards, and a full ERP for his four Ugandan businesses on Bolt.new, cutting out the middleman fee on every transaction.
- Visionary tech focuses on a more independent horizon
Buhari Salisu built VISION-LINK's cloud backend and caregiver dashboards for AI smart glasses on Bolt.new in a few hours, skipping a $4,000, six-week vendor quote.
- The print store a photographer waited 15 years to open
A San Diego photographer wanted his own print store for 15 years. He built it on Bolt.new for about $450, instead of the $10,000 an agency would charge.
- Prompt queueing is live: queue your next idea while Bolt.new builds
Prompt queueing is live in every Bolt.new project. Type your next prompt while a build runs and it fires in order when its turn comes.
- Can an internal tool builder replace custom dev work?
Need a clear call? Find where an internal tool builder fits your team, where custom code still matters, and how to weigh speed, integrations, and governance.
- Is an AI app builder enough to launch a business?
See what an AI app builder can ship, where it falls short, and how to evaluate code quality, security, design systems, and portability.
- A solo founder shipped a telehealth platform in three months
After four years of shelved plans and agency quotes he couldn't afford, Martin F. built NetDoctor, a telehealth marketplace for Argentina, in three months with Bolt.new. It now has 90 approved providers and 50 patients.
- How to build a SaaS product before writing any code
Learn how to build a SaaS product: validate demand, scope your MVP, compare custom, no-code, and AI-assisted paths, then plan billing and launch.
- What's the best Webflow alternative for websites?
Need a Webflow alternative? Use this guide to compare platforms like Bolt, Framer, and WordPress by website vs. web app fit.
- How do you go from prompt to product with AI prototyping?
See how AI prototyping turns a plain-language idea into a hosted app. Compare tools by code access, auth, testing, design systems, and launch.
- How one owner replaced almost $3,000 a month in software and services with Bolt.new
Sky Lubreski replaced nearly $3,000 a month in software and a $2,500-a-month ad agency with one app he built on Bolt.new, and Scratch Golf just had its best month yet.
- You're paying for 100 features and using 5: the small business software problem
36% of SaaS licenses sit unused and 80% of software features are rarely touched. Here's why rented software fits nobody, and the 15-minute audit that shows your own number.
- What is vibe coding without engineers? Where it starts to fail
What is vibe coding? It's great for prototypes, but can you use it for production? Learn where it fails and how to build real products without engineers.
- An enterprising family saves transportation clients from a $70K SaaS subscription
Paul, a trucking-software consultant, built TradeWeave with his two sons after years of watching clients pay $70,000 a year for outdated EDI tools. Eight carriers now run on it, at about half the price, with more features.
- Dictation is live: Bolt.new is ready to listen
Dictation is live in Bolt.new. Talk through your prompt instead of typing it, and give AI the detail it needs to build the right app.
- 7 small businesses that stopped renting software and started building it
Seven small business owners canceled SaaS subscriptions and built the software their business actually needed, using Bolt.new. One replaced a $70,000-a-year platform at half the price; another cut $600 a month in subscriptions down to one tool.
- Which vibe coding tools can ship a real product?
Evaluating vibe coding tools? See which ones handle SEO, hosting, and handoff, and which ones just speed up coding for developers.
- Security belongs in the platform, not in your backlog
AI-generated code fails security checks at a flat 45 percent rate no matter the model you use. Bolt's new security agent scans, fixes, and hardens every app in one click before it publishes.
- Introducing Skills: Create your ideal AI builder
Every new project starts with the same setup conversation. Skills end it. They're reusable bundles of context, rules, and workflows Bolt.new applies as you build: your fonts, your stack, your code review standards. Add them to one project or share them across your workspace.