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Aaron O'Leary

🛠 Has anyone built a production app with bolt.new?

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I’ve been playing around with it, and it’s wild how fast it spins up a full-stack app from a prompt. But I’m wondering:

  • How well does it generate code for real-world use?

  • Any prompting tips to get better results?

  • How does it compare to others like Lovable?

Also, do you think tools like Bolt (full app generation) are the future, or will the Cursor-style coding assistant approach win out?

Would love to hear from anyone who's pushed this beyond a test project! 🚀

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Soham Ganatra

Currently app.composio.dev has major components designed using bolt. It's not that you can directly copy and paste the code to go to prod but for us it significantly shorten's the time to get the initial structure going. When we used Lovable, bolt was still better. I have heard Lovable is good for different things that we didn't need.

I think bolt is building the future while Cursor is getting to the best position so it can eventually build the future. I like cursor's approach more but love both products.

Rajiv Ayyangar

@soham_ganatra3 that's an interesting perspective. Bolt is going directly for the future (mostly agentic) state, whereas Cursor is starting from a strong position now. It's cool to hear Bolt saved you time even though you had to do some modifications.

Sai Nova

Hi, I built @CloneUI with bolt.new, which can help developers or UI designers and product managers quickly generate front-end code.

But I don’t rely entirely on bolt.new, and I also adjusted the code myself, but I have to say it helped me a lot

Hussein

Haven’t tried Bolt or Lovable yet, but I’ve been using Cursor and it’s already pretty impressive. Sure, you need to know your way around code, but the speed boost is crazy. It’s wild how much AI-assisted coding has improved—definitely curious to see how full app generation tools compare! 🚀

Dineshan

Bolt is impressive but i wouldn't suggest for any complex project. Better to use ide like Cursor

Lesley Liu

I love bolt.new and i used it to build a calendar app.
The reason i choose bolt.new over other Ai coding products is because i know nothing about coding and bolt as a full app generation tool allows me to create a product in this way.

Olive Sen

In my experience, Bolt hallucinates after the basic version is built and cannot debug properly, utilizing a lot of tokens in creating errors and fixing errors. It is superb otherwise, till now the best way to build it to use these tools as a coding assistant, than full fledged tools, unless what you need is something basic.

But the future looks promising.

James Kahwai

I have used bolt to build out really functional things like this loan calculator here; https://zingy-zabaione-42d435.netlify.app . Bolt really needs a user who's great at prompt engineering to make sure your tokens meet your intended ROI or ROR(Return on research). I have further deployed bolt.diy in my local environment and this has been the best hack. As a SE, bolt.diy does the heavy lifting and gets me an MVP(frontend with lightweight backend). I then ship the project to bolt.new where I finesse everything that wasn't complete.

I have a subscription for Lovable after going through lots of reviews which I will be building something this week then I can have a concrete comparison.

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