Bolt.diy is a total failure!

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Sorry for the click bait topic title, I’m not suggesting this project is a failure, but my usage of bolt.diy is! A little background for context.

I am a product manager, I am not a developer and i cannot code. I discovered bolt.new accidentally soon after it was released and it blew my mind. In fact i was early enough to get a monthly sub thats about a third of what it is now!

Then came Cole and ‘Bolt.new any LLM’ which i also discovered by accident the day he launched his first video.

I experimented with GPT4o as that was the only API i had access to. Like others have found, It would only produce plain and simple garbage and nothing like the output of the OG bolt.new.

Bolt.new continues to improve, but i spend a months credits on one project in like 2 days, its not very sustainable.

I’ve been updating bolt.diy periodically and i have now obtained API keys for: OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini and Anthropic

I cannot get a single bit of output from this platform. It will only generate a black preview screen and constant errors in the terminal relating to failed installations etc.

I have used Databutton, loveable etc. They all work (with varying success). I have tried importing projects started in bolt.new or elswehere and i still cannot get any ouptut at all.

I have tried versions 0.0.6 and 0.03. Nothing, I have previously managed to generate at least something, but now its constant issues with npm and vite. I’m using Canary.

Its super frustrating and really holding me up. Can anyone help suggest how i could overcome this? Is it related to my hardware environment at all? Even when i use Sonnet 3.5 (which by my understanding should be the closest clone of bolt.new) i just get nothing. There’s stuff in the address bar of preview but the screen itself is only black.

I’d be so grateful for any tips here as I am convinced that its my amateurness thats a factor here, but it does seem like lots of people are having issues with bolt.diy.

I am so excited for when this actually works and just want to say thanks to anyone reading who has contributed thus far.

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Hi @hi2gav,

thanks for your feedback and thoughts.

First thing I want to mention: bolt.diy is very new and in a very early development state, what you can see on the version 0.0.6. We still trying to build a good foundation for this project and organize the roadmap etc. for this year.

To your other problems => we would need much more informations about your system, how you installed etc. to investigate that.

If you like I can instead offer you to do a Meeting with me and we take a look at your problems and figure out whats going wrong, as well as try to fix it and get something nice for you out.

You can also take a look at my youtube channel for videos about bolt and there is also one where I build something with Gemini and publish it on github pages. Its uncut and you see the problems I got.

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I’d suggest using the prebuild with npm install bolt.diy which is on version 0.0.5 stable. Start fresh and use a more capable model than ChatGPT 4o, such as Gemini Flash 2.0 (free), or DeepSeek-V3 (or R1, but be aware that it has some context/compatibility issues with Bolt.diy right now).

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Command Line Usage:
npm install -g bolt.diy

bolt.diy # For Linux or Mac
bolt.diy.cmd # For Windows

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I’d like to be part of that meeting. And maybe we could discuss other things. Not sure I want to wait until next Friday and it would be nice to hash out agenda points without interrupting the flow of the “All Hands” meeting. Just food for thought!

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Thank you for your response. I cant commit to a meeting at the moment but i will check your channel out!

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Interesting! I will give this a go, thank you.

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So i posited that it may be related to my Node.js version. I rolled back to 18 from 20 - and it actually put something up in preview! But as soon as i went to my second prompt, its starts getting stuck at run commands for npm installations.

I do appreciate this is an early and community powered project.

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I use node.js version 22 as shown in my install videos, whats working fine for bolt.diy itself.

The node version within the containers is always 18, cause this comes from stackblitz itself. But they are already working on upgrading it.

Which Provider / Model do you use right now?
Can you provide your prompt, so we can verify?
Also post screenshot of your bolt in browser.

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Not sure it has anything to do with the node version, I’m running node v22.9.0 and npm 10.8.3 (latest I believe) and mine seems to work. I honestly haven’t done a comparison of which version works best though (of bolt.diy, npm/node, prebuild vs “dev”, etc.). Because that’s honestly a daunting task, lol. It’s an interesting consideration and all of those variations probably have their tradeoffs.

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Honestly its just so inconsistent, i now cant get a new project to load a preview even with a super simple prompt and in the exact environment where something loaded just before. The chat seems to show it gets stuck anytime an npm install is required - even when this is not reflected in bolt.diy terminal. I think i’ve had enough for today!

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just made this video after seeing some of these responses

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Thank you for the great tutorial. I have a question about the frameworks used in the premade templates: Besides React and Tailwind CSS that you mentioned, which other frameworks are included? For example, are Next.js, Svelte, or Angular available?

I think it would be helpful to include a complete list of supported frameworks in the bolt.diy documentation or as a pinned post in the forum. This would help users to get a better starting point in the initial prompt to build the applications. Have a great day!

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@davidseguraia you can see / use the templates on the bolt.diy startpage :wink:

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Thanks is good to know that all of those have already premade templates in bolt.diy thank you leex

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np, as also written in many other topics, you can use every github repo as template by just adding the repo url to the url:

http://localhost:5173/git?url=https://github.com/YZarytskyi/react-voice-visualizer.git
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That is super cool to know thank you leex

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Do you think it might be possible for your local version of bolt.diy to compare itself with the latest version and display a note “New version available”? That would save needlessly checking to see if a newer version should be downloaded. Thanks, Rob

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feature will be available with the new UI update