I discovered Bolt.diy 2 days ago and I’ve been playing with it nonstop. Especially with creating sites. One thing I noticed was the website output is usually very low quality or cheap looking.
Thanks to Bolt.diy I was introduced to Bolt.new and Lovable just yesterday. I played around with them and noticed the significant difference in their much higher quality than Bolt.diy.
Needless to say I ran out of credits within 2 prompts of using Bolt.new. So I made my way to Lovable and to my surprise you get 5 free credits daily.
With that being said, I discovered a neat little trick for getting higher quality sites in Bolt.diy.
This workaround is for you if you don’t have $$$ to put into Bolt.new just yet, or just simply would rather not spend money.
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Start by creating a website on Lovable. You want to be as thorough as possible in your initial prompt. Your goal is to use as few credits as possible. My goal has been only 1 to 2 credits per project.
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Once you’re happy enough with the preview, push the project to your GitHub account.
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Next, download the zip file from GitHub and unzip it on your computer.
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Head over to Bolt.diy, create a new project, and upload the files you just unzipped.
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Now you can continue working on that same project using Gemini.
The cool part is that it builds on the styling from Lovable, so you’re starting with a nice, polished look right from the beginning. And yes, even pictures show up on Bolt.diy this way.
And with it being Gemini, it’s 100% free at the moment so that’s cool.