Bolt.new Tutorial for Beginners (the Cursor AI and V0 Killer)

[@GregIsenberg]

RAS MIC IS BACK , NOT A NEW CHARACTER BUT A WONDERFUL CHARACTER - YOU ASKED FOR A BOLT TUTORIAL SO WE DID IT. I GUESS COMMENT/LIKE/SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WANT TO LEARN TO BUILD YOUR IDEAS / SPREAD THE LOVE

[@NDIZITV]

I am 125% non technical and my MVP is almost ready. Done with UI/UX design with the help of bolt.new on the recommendation of Micky. Now learning basics of database set up and integration. Once I get that done right, we on the road baby. Cant wait. 🎉🎉. Thanks Greg for spreading the knowledge.

[@sandogammy766]

How did you use bolt.new for UI/UX?

[@stanford19]

In the same boat my friend. I am using Supabase for my database and backend needs and there is a bit to learn, my goodness

[@AmanFangeria]

If you want any help with the db. I can happily do it. I struggle with ui/ux but I am wonderful with logic. I figure out almost everything

[@mastermedicalterms]

Can bolt create its own databases?

[@louisscott4376]

​@mastermedicalterms it does for testing purpose . Last time i did was cloned gmail and it worked fine.

[@Ed-xv4sy]

I love that Greg brought on Ras! I'm building an app as we speak for free. For starters, I have ZERO coding experience, ZERO tech experience and if I didn't run out of my 'free tokens' I would've had the app built last night.

[@GregIsenberg]

ras is the king

[@stasvaisman3100]

f*ck. ran out of 10M credits. now have to wait for a month until I can move on. I love it but I hate it 😂

[@Ed-xv4sy]

@@GregIsenberg so are you brother, thanks for inspiring creativity. Every time I listen to one of your videos, my creativity juices start turning lol

[@Ed-xv4sy]

@@stasvaisman3100 DAMN!! 😅

[@Jamesrwatsonx]

What are you using? Ras and his starter kit?

[@relaxingsoothingsleepzone]

This really is the future, i have managed to build my easy to follow regiment and it is avaibale in different laungues. I wish bolt was here 5 years ago lol

[@thehari75]

Cant wait for the bolt killer product in a few days

[@eMeriPartners]

word

[@peak.y]

😂😂

[@magicismagic123]

can't wait for bolt killer killer product..

[@micha_4_you]

@@magicismagic123 😂😂

[@Utoko]

I think the only adv is that it runs online for people not wanting to install stuff. This doesn't seem like a killer product at all. tbh. It is more limiting not able to use on your local projects. Each hype cycle the hype words are getting worse. You want to stay up to date but you waste so much time on bad headline and bad intros.

[@udaankhatola88]

I am non tech guy Greg & Ryan and thanks for making this Pod. I have been fiddling with Cursor and V0. From the last 2 days have been playing with Bolt. This thing is mind blowing

[@AnthonyCandaele]

I use Bolt.new in conjunction with Cursor AI. I asked Bolt.new to implement my Figma files, and once it is implemented I copy paste it to my Cursor AI editor and keep refining it. I have the impressing that Bolt.new has a better overview on the whole project than Cursor AI.

[@fransiscusaji]

Are you using the figma files as the mockup of the screen?

[@etiennejulius1179]

Thanks for the raw, unedited honesty. 🙏🍻🍻

[@aikonmishima7945]

There’s only a few people in the world I would trust to build something with passion. One of em is Ras. Good job buddy.

[@shawnurquhart4628]

Thanks guys. Loved the demo and it's my new fave thing to use. Bolt is so new but is on the verge of brilliance.

[@PokeFangOfficial]

The biggest issue I've been struggling with since getting into no code development, has been the backend side of things. My app called for user data storage, web hooks, and APIs. I know how get keys etc... but when building using these tools like Claude or v0, What I end up with is a feedback loop where the Ai doesn't;t understand how to build the app without the data or content to build it for. I've yet to find a good beginner video on how to set up backends for these apps, recommendations welcome. 🙏

[@skorppio_tech]

This

[@Caesar_]

hey dude, been 2 months, have you found an answer to this? kinda at the same point as well.

[@totaldomination247]

@@Caesar_ no they haven't i spent money on replit and bolt - have issues with both will take a year...

[@OHHnoYOUdidntMAN]

Sometimes i'm not sure how Greg has time to put out so many lengthy videos but i'm all here for it. so much great information. Your channel was one of the high quality ones i found. I only start getting into coding/app development/saas a week ago. All your information is helping me bring my idea to reality, so thanks!!

[@GregIsenberg]

ive been sipping too much coffee recently

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

He has a team working for him....

[@AndersNøhrHolmstrøm]

Ras is my favourite guest 🔥

[@1voice4all]

The advantage of Bolt over cursor is that it provides infra as well. You just need to have internet connection and a device, you can use your phone as well.

[@Wodawic]

Great stuff as always Greg. +100. And I can't say this for other AI content channels, but your ADS are actually worthy of watching.

[@VaibhavShewale]

i have seen some developers who have no coding idea but using cursor and gpt to create the saas project and making money! bolt would help them more faster now

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

COOL...what did they build?

[@GregoryCampbellSwag]

I'm loving this! I created my software in Bolt and now I'm ready to start selling it but I'm stuck. I have the software itself which works perfectly but I don't know how to connect it to a website builder so that when people purchase they can actually log in to the software/create their account ect... Can you create a video going over start to finish from creating the app, the sales page, deploying it, user login, database ect...?

[@brefooted_roads]

Yup, definitely need one! I've been suffering from the same problem from a couple of months and as a non-tech person its really hard to figure things out by myself.

[@khanmagne-en]

now you can do it with supabase, connect it to a database , have accounts and so on

[@chrisholland6366]

It seems like a lot of these tools are good for building basic frontend prototypes. Getting started and ideas going. But I can't imagine this actually being used for anything more complicated as of now.

[@AmineKonvert]

I built some insane stuff in a couple of minutes with it. You are 100% wrong

[@stephencie]

@@AmineKonvert "insane stuff in a couple of minutes", come on bro what is your definition of insane stuff? Must be a few requirements maximum

[@theycallmetheboss]

@@stephencie i built front end, backend, payment system, api, product pages .oollol

[@AmineKonvert]

@@stephencie I built an app that integrates my Shopify products, images, SKU's etc and syncs them to another plateforms CMS and built a custom UI to manage the transfer of data between them, multiple API's involved, would have taken my team at least 1 week to build, did it alone. Stop coping, just get good at prompting, correct code manually if you have to and you can ship 1 SaaS per day lmaoooo

[@AmineKonvert]

@@stephencie Give me 48 hours and I can build some crazy stuff

[@GermanRodriguezqndq]

Awesome tutorial! 🎉 Love how you break it down for beginners-makes prototyping feel so achievable! Thanks for sharing, guys!✨

[@devoceanwarrior]

As usual great pod. Question for Ras or may be idea for next pod: Teach us on Building auth/login system with AI, and integrating some payment gateway like Paypal/stripe with AI)

[@wtcbd01]

Really like that you show the families and how to keep trying to get it to work. Thanks

[@MJFUYT]

Im a total newbie. But this demo was amazing. Like & subscribed!

[@Darenwrld]

Great video. Non. Technology guy here its so interesting. Ras is awesome

[@Jre-nomad]

I found this tool is what I've been searching for. Love it thanks guys. just subscribed to ras mic.

[@IntelligentArtAI]

This is the video that will kick off my journey as a non dev founder. I am building an mvp for my app idea

[@georgemontgomery1892]

Same, have fun! The best advice I have is to at least know the basics, just in case the A.I. gets hard stuck. You'll have an idea where to look.

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

Hey... Send me your app info and lets talk. Maybe meet in person down the road in Philippines. And by the way, I'm taller (6 foot 1 inch) than 90% of total American males.

[@morena-jackson]

Great content, love Ras Mic

[@LisaColeCMO]

I loved this video so much I finally decided to build an idea I’ve had. Unfortunately I just spent 12 hours (and $50) going around in circles with Bolt solving the same two problems in circular motion, even with using Claude to guide my discussions. 😢

[@mrrobot724]

yeah same bolt is garbage

[@george777ify]

I have been playing around with bolt.new for a couple of weeks. Quite awesome. The problem is there doesn't seem to be anyway to connect to a pinecone db. Other databases yes, pinecone doesn't work at all. If anyone has gotten bolt working with pinecone, i'd love to hear how you did it.

[@jermainepowell298]

Just signed up with Cursor and have been trying to develop a product, good in some sense, main issue it deletes a lot of its own code, you have to constantly tell it to enhance what you have, this mainly happens when using the composer

[@ohdearitsmandy]

Great insights! Learned so much! Plus: nice conversation as well 🙂 I'm a newbie and learning every day! Those tools are so much fun. I've been trying out replit, then cursor and now bolt 🙂 Keep up the good work! Really helpful content!

[@Zafar_Kahn]

Wow. This is history in making

[@daryljones1191]

This is probably for very simple apps. Nothing I have prompted worked. Absolutely nothing. But i do love applications like this. Hopefully it will get better in the future

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

Spend a few months learning to code then BEND IT TO YOUR WILL....

[@NeurodivergentTM]

Thank you for a great video. You can actually download the project and run it through an LLM or work on it in Cursor or similar. Perhaps this feature wasn't ready at the time you made the video.

[@canastasio29]

Thx Greg, loved the episode!

[@maskman4821]

Awesome，bolt.new is the future ❤

[@gigawerx]

This was really good thanks for the walk through !! good stuff!!

[@AdrianVrabie]

Wow! First time on your channel and I

[@randomname9758]

Blows my mind how things are advancing so fast.

[@c.athompson9280]

The real time joy when he got it to work. That was priceless.😁

[@newmaninsightmedia]

The next decade belongs to developers and non techie no coders... Thanks, guys for this fun video. I cant wait till this gets funded and the bolt platform is lightning fast !🎉

[@thedownwarddoug6642]

Right I’ve just made a landing page, but how do I transfer it to my own domain.

[@mrpocock]

It half worked for me. I was able to sketch an app, but it quickly got to the point where adding a new feature would cause it to forget an existing one.

[@yankee-d-king8063]

whenever he says "I know what the problem is.." *chef's kiss

[@telegrphavenuetv]

It keeps failing to install dependencies on mine and I'm not able to see output. Any suggestions?

[@PierreTomaselli-e6n]

I have a little question about support extension files, bolt take in her program manager of png or jpeg to display it or not ? thx in advance

[@AdminOne-hj4dt]

Bro Ras is the man.!

[@GregIsenberg]

100%

[@cloududupi8787]

Hi @Greg Isenberg, How do we expose it to external ip and also i want to know if you have any idea if the same is available for k8s with Nvidia. Thanks

[@mrodrod9553]

Would love to see a follow up video once some of the bugs and workflow complications have been resolved.

[@ClaraMoorevov]

Thanks for the detailed share! But it seems Bolt is a bit too much for me, feels more like it’s for devs. Any chance you could show me how to use Trickle? I heard it’s perfect for people who don’t know code. Appreciate it!

[@gozh2002]

after the app generated and I run the preview, then how do I download it to my local.. tried it to open in stackblitz but the files are not there

[@mr.haydarevich6301]

Good question. Anyone know the answer?

[@yuyuthemaker6716]

@gosh2002 once in Stackblitz, go to the menu button on the top left side, open it and click "Collections". You will find your projects from Bolt there. Hope that helps!

[@AIAutomationGroup]

Fantastic Tutorial. Really Enjoyed and Needed to Watch something like this for added Motivation and Hope as a Learned HTML/CSS/JS/Python Programmer. The captivating part of this Video/Tutorial was watching Ras battle through and show us how to keep problem-solving / keep working through the bugs !!! Please get Ras Mic back on sooner rather than later

[@proinsiasmatthews6927]

I think bolt is really going to change how apps are developed. You can take an idea and get a very good mvp created in such a short space of time. The issue I'm finding with bolt though is that when you are working on the app for a few days, you spend more time reminding the tool what the feature should have been in the first place, even when you've spent a long time ensuring you've specified user flows and features in the first place. Is it possible to have a "feature reference" file that the tool can refer to when you ask it to implement a feature that was on the original plan for the app but it couldn't code out because of token limits? Also, DIFF will make this 1000% times better.

[@BryanLee-r5r]

how do you find this for non-technical people vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

[@slimaneali26]

Will it be possible for the generated site implemented in wordpress or any cms?

[@IanFernando]

is there a way to automatically load this on your server then work on it via ftp?

[@freelancellc]

You guys paired up works great gang. I'm really enjoying bolt and trying to test what it is good at and what it isn't. It has a great future if it keeps going this direction.

[@GregIsenberg]

appreciate that

[@gusibi]

awesome video，thanks 👍👍👍

[@realjgerard]

Only gets better from here!

[@user-cz9bl6jp8b]

When you deploy your program, how do you hide the API key to keep other people from using it?

[@stevenrivadeneira5691]

Besides cursor is there any other one you recommend for backend code for non web app

[@ricko13]

At 3:30 Greg's face was priceless when Mic began with "two dudes..." I was just waiting for the grand finale: "...kissing" hahaha

[@15nate]

I’m getting the same issues trying to deploy. Once you export the code into Cursor, is there an easy way to edit the files and dependencies via prompt engineering while in cursor?

[@suhaybi]

I like how greg is up to date❤

[@ArtKrishnamurti]

I would hope you don’t become like all these 19 year olds chasing hype trains and advertising today’s new “game changer” product. You’ve got so much more value to offer man! I get the click bait works, but only short term. I’d say stay away from cool new tools and products and remain focused on the new paradigm this tech is opening up and how that influences business/product ideation. 🎉

[@GregIsenberg]

this was a highly requested video. Will do more idea/tutorials on ideation. They are coming up!

[@SeerWS]

I agree about clickbait. What I don't get is which word(s) were in any way clickbait? Ras literally explained how Bolt is like the other tools in one. And the video was a tutorial lol.

[@maniksahdev4292]

@@GregIsenberg thank you for making the video, it was very helpful.

[@bluecaribbeanstore]

Awesomeness ☝🏼❤️🤩😎💯

[@dweb]

Potential deal breakers. No access to versioning, such as Git, and no way to download the generated source code.

[@amitmahajan8989]

It was just my first month of Cursor AI subscription and Greg already has its killer. What is happening in this AI world?

[@GregIsenberg]

life moves fast lol

[@nikitaannusewicz]

Cursos has different use case, I don't think one can eliminate other

[@WayneAtkinsonEntrepreneur]

I like bolt, but it’s annoying how much it breaks what was working. It’s 1 step forward 2 steps back. I spent far too long on an easy screen as it kept breaking what was working. Frustrating but exciting too. I’m a long time 38 year developer and I can see the benefits especially for already developers.

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

have you tried Cursor-AI ? it has been an incredible developer experience so far.

[@rajpdus]

Good one. Can we do a full end to end deployment play here?

[@shencao4678]

I really love this video! Thanks so much! Start to follow both of you since the last video with introduction of Cursor Ai. I have zero knowledge of programming. Finding it hard to use Cursor Ai, do you have any advice for someone like me to start to learn some basic programing skills or knowledges in order to utilize Cursor Ai. Thank so much.

[@stefan_lm3906]

I wanted to make an ai wrapper. If i have ZERO codimg knowledge, do you think i can create it have user love ins and everything all done with this?

[@ramo4uuuu]

Which AI model ist Bolt.new using ? Claude 3.5 ?

[@vichetkim5533]

I wish these guys mentioned that there was a limited number of tokens pertaining to the number of questions somebody who is trialling the product is allowed. There were too many bugs created by Bolt, including the inability to start the completed code.

[@dhruvrehan]

Hey guys, Is there a community for non-tech builders, where they can share their issues they are facing on bolt and get help? Would really love to join.

[@jamiumuhammedmusa8640]

so it is seems the link to fowl ai is off? any ideas for an alternative?

[@theaccountantguy]

Hi guys it is an awesome demo. Really appreciate everything that you put up for us. I have one simple question, how do we link a python code from the backend onto a next js react framework onto the front end. Is it possible? I tried to do the same, but the same isn't helping out

[@ChristopherCopeland]

I just requested a refund from Bolt. Here’s why: I spent 12 hours on bolt trying to get it to build something that I built in 12 prompts on v0 This is likely naive, but do these LLMs responses degrade over time, or as the complexity increases? Once I got the UI and design 80% there, I started making aesthetic requests to change icons or borders. Then it would just proceed to completely abandon entire components we had constructed, or destroy the functionality and devastate the UI. It’s not lost on me the power of these tools to allow someone like me with zero code experience to build a functional front end of any quality, but I don’t understand why it can’t handle minor adjustments without destroying everything. I spent more time trying to get it to restore lost functionality and design than I did actually implementing anything.

[@ejk6969]

I had exactly the same experience. Too much time + tokens needed correcting things that bolt changed. That were good before. Also very annoying not able to revert to earlier versions. Bolt has potential but needs to improve a lot more.

[@Businessology.]

@Christopher What would a better Bolt/v0 look like to you? I am working on something 👨🏻‍🍳

[@disciplinefreedom3083]

Same almost there, then its wrecked by what should be a small change. Spends all the tokens fixing it. It is very good. but this makes it less efficinet than t just using gpt

[@vladvladovv]

The main problem is that Bolt doesn't have backups or version control. It'll fix this pain

[@ChristopherCopeland]

@@Businessology. I think if there was a way that you could store a particular set of code once the user has approved it- basically “locking” parts of code or full sets of code- possibly by storing that code in a different way than bolt does so that the LLM can reference that already-constructed component when it rebuilds the code for the next-prompted modification, it doesn’t have to speculate on what it did before and also will not have access to that locked code when it makes a new update. I have a fairly shallow understanding of the way all of these things function from a coding perspective, but it seems to me that if you had the ability to “lock” things, where you can “unlock” them later so that it can update something in that set of code, that would be rad. The problem seems to be, let’s say I want a margin shifted… for some reason bolt decides it’s high time to completely reimagine that entire component and UI lol If you have a way that I could build and then modify the code at a very specific and granular level where it *never* adjusts more than is absolutely necessary to execute the exact specific modification I have requested, I will give you all of the money 😂 Of course if I ask it for a sweeping change across the entire thing, it should also be able to do that, but I think it should look at the nature of my request and ask if it is an aesthetic change or a function change or a UI modification, etc, xyz, and then do its best to narrow down the LEAST work it can possibly do to execute the request, that would help cut down the “hallucination” of what I want done. For example, I asked it very very (painfully) specifically to change the Font size in a component “to make it more clean and minimal” and when it returned the updated code to me it said, “I did this and this…… and also increased the size size of the icons for increased visibility”

[@jamesrowdy]

i love these episodes, these are birthing the next generation of indie hackers. incredible work boys!

[@nasiffuad292]

It will also make indie hacking dead because if everybody can build solution that you are offering with your AI builded SaaS, then why would people buy from you? People can built your solution with AI and use it for themselves. Simple as that Mediocre SaaS will be gone in few years. People will only buy complex softwares that has good security and architecture like Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma etc

[@fordgoesfishing]

Hot take - Cursor was probably used in the construction of Bolt. Bolt will probably be used to create the next generation of app dev ai. This for me is the most mind blowing thing.

[@paullopez_ai]

I’ve had trouble with bolt installing basic npm packages

[@aaagaming2023]

Ras is the man.

[@GregIsenberg]

he really is

[@DmitriZaitsev]

Would you mind sharing how you'd fix it each time you say you'd fix it with one line? :)

[@ottokomabonny3624]

Do the apps built remain the property of Bolt?

[@Jonesrful]

Heck yes. Big sips on this one.

[@brianWreaves]

🏆 Cheers for sharing!

[@amuk9922]

Are these softwares free to use or cost accruing .if cost accuring what's the cost?

[@mixedrealitycreators]

I built this idea just with cursor for my own flux implementation using flux’s own API and nextjs.

[@janhejkal2319]

Great podcast. This tools are awesome. Do you have video how to monetize those MVP made by AI to see if there is an interest?

[@NostalgicIcons]

You should link his socials and the tool URL, somewhere in the description I think

[@bik8353]

it's insane how fast we are moving

[@q4982]

as an engineeer, I feel so safe.. hahah

[@GregIsenberg]

hahah

[@MD-vp7yn]

It’s garbage

[@123Coffs]

Every time I run out of credits, my entire build just disappears even after deployment. How do i carry on where i left off????? My code just vanishes?

[@larrylewis6968]

So then @gregisenberg and Ras Mif, once I’m done the prototype on Replit or Bolt, how do I transfer to Cursor to build the actual full app? Also Greg, Devin (AI Engineer), is also mind blowing. I have built a couple of projects. I would love to come on your show and show Devin and why it’s one of the best, if not the best, AI Engineer platforms out there!

[@obaidullahghawsi4657]

How can it beat cursor, it doesn't even support to write code in dart :(

[@mariowilliams4704]

I wonder how many tokens yall used

[@Derick99]

Can this work with existing files or no

[@stefan_lm3906]

How much does it actually cost to have a fully functioning app on the app store? With all the connections for servers, protection and monitoring?

[@augmentos]

Its craaaaazzyyyyy I spent a decade learning to program and Im not here to FUN, my job is radically different in 4 years from now

[@cyberstore2268]

Thanks... I have subcribe to learn..

[@РаминРодионов]

Thank you very much!