No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons

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. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @EricSimons40 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

Sarah GuohostEric Simonsguest

Dec 6, 202438mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 38m
Channel: No Priors
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @EricSimons40 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

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Sarah Guo
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Eric Simons
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Eric Simons, No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons explores bolt.new turns ideas into full-stack apps, redefining software creation StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons discusses Bolt.new, an AI-powered browser-based tool that generates full-stack, production-grade web applications from natural language prompts. Built on StackBlitz’s WebContainer technology, Bolt runs dev environments entirely in the browser, avoiding backend setup, latency, and cloud costs. Simons explains why they open-sourced Bolt’s prompts and code, how community usage drives both product learning and model evaluation, and why this moment is fundamentally different from earlier no-code attempts. He also highlights real users launching profitable startups with massive cost and time savings, and predicts a rapid shift toward “software composers” directing powerful codegen systems.

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