Unconventional Beginnings in Silicon Valley

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah talks with Eric Simons, co-founder and CEO of StackBlitz. The company has experienced explosive growth since the launch 2 months ago of Bolt.new, an AI application that lets users prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack applications directly in the browser. Eric talks about the years-long journey that led to overnight success, why so many non-technical users are forming a community around Bolt, and the democratization of coding.

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Show Notes:

0:00 Introduction

0:36 Bolt.new

2:04 How Bolt stands out from other coding assistants

3:28 Building beyond ChatGPT wrappers

6:13 Driving growth through community

9:42 Evals

13:29 Eric’s favorite use cases and startups leveraging Bolt

17:10 Why engineers are embracing no- code tools

24:32 The years long journey of StackBlitz

31:50 Balancing an Ironman, a newborn, and a product launch

35:18 Predictions for developers and code generation tools