HUGE NEWS: oTToDev → Bolt.diy: Our Partnership with StackBlitz! 🚀

ColeMedin · December 11, 2024, 3:00pm

Hey everyone!

I’ve got HUGE news to share today that’s going to supercharge our journey to building the best open source AI coding assistant together as a community!

The Big Announcement

oTToDev is becoming Bolt.diy - the OFFICIAL open source version of Bolt.new, in partnership with StackBlitz (the creators of Bolt.new)! This partnership represents a huge step forward for our project and opens up incredible opportunities for our community.

I’ve got a video on my channel talking about this partnership and I even have a segment with me chatting with Eric (the CEO of StackBlitz) there!

What This Means

Bolt.diy is about to get a LOT more attention and engagement with this partnership - I’m stoked!
Our community remains independent and maintains full creative control (I have make SURE of this!)
The oTTomator Think Tank continues as our community hub
We keep complete freedom over our feature roadmap and development direction
We’ll have access to StackBlitz’s open source expertise
Joint events and collaborations are coming soon
New GitHub repo home: https://github.com/stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy
The old GitHub repo link will work, it will just redirect to the new repo location. But you’ll have to clone the new repo to run Bolt.diy!

About the Name Change

While we’ve built great momentum with the oTToDev name, becoming Bolt.diy reflects our new official status while emphasizing our DIY spirit - perfect for a project focused on local LLM support, custom features, and community-driven development.

Project Independence

Bolt.diy will maintain its separate development path from commercial Bolt.new. This independence ensures we can focus on our open source goals while still benefiting from knowledge sharing between the projects.

What’s Next

We’ve got exciting plans in the pipeline:

Upcoming events with StackBlitz
Collaboration with their open source experts
New community initiatives
And much more to be announced!

Get Involved

This is just the beginning of an amazing new chapter for our project. If you’re not already part of our community and just snooping around here, now is the perfect time to join the oTTomator Think Tank and be part of building something incredible.

Lot of exciting things coming up for oTTomator as well! I’ve been working on the Live Agent Studio behind the scenes and that is in pre-release now! Sign up there and get 100 free tokens to try out some agents I and a few others have built!

HUGE THANKS

to the maintainer team for Bolt.diy - @mahoney, @wonderwhy.er, @dustinwloring1988, @thecodacus, @ed.mcconnell, @mrsimpson, and @Digitl-Alchemyst. You guys are killing it and it’s been a pleasure to work together so far and I look forward to continuing to do so!

and also to the entire community! Without all of your contributions, testing, and discussions, Bolt.diy would not be even close to where it is now!

Stay tuned for more updates!

aliasfox · December 11, 2024, 3:02pm

Literally didn’t work first time I clicked but now it’s live lol. Posted 23 seconds ago.

monkeydesigner · December 11, 2024, 3:18pm

Does this mean we might get access to targeting files, I’m finding it a little painful currenty where the whole app gets rewritten

ColeMedin · December 11, 2024, 3:35pm

We will be sharing ideas between Bolt.new and Bolt.diy so yes this is a possibility for sure! I haven’t discussed this with them specifically but I am definitely planning on it!

dsmflow · December 11, 2024, 5:41pm

Very cool! I need to get myself more involved.

i-ck · December 11, 2024, 6:15pm

Huge congratulations on this massive milestone! The partnership with StackBlitz is a game-changer for the project, and I’m excited to see the impact it will have on the community. The fact that Bolt.diy will maintain its independence and creative control is a huge plus. I’m looking forward to the upcoming events, collaborations, and new initiatives. The future of Bolt.diy is bright, and I’m thrilled to be a part of this journey. Thanks for sharing this amazing news.

davidseguraia · December 11, 2024, 6:19pm

Congratulations to Cole, the team and every one else that have contributed to the project and the community, thanks guys!

grk9993 · December 11, 2024, 8:17pm

It’s fantastic to hear that oTToDev has now become Bolt.diy! I hope this rebranding attracts a lot of attention to the DIY aspect of Bolt.new. I do have a few questions that I hope you can clarify:

Motivations: You’ve mentioned in your last video that you are not interested in financial gains from oTToDev. So could you share more about your motivations behind this decision?
Bolt.new’s Involvement: Considering Bolt.new’s commercial focus, have they committed to contributing to the improvements and development of Bolt.diy?
Repo Relocation Risks: Moving the repo under StackBlitz Labs is sure to attract attention but also comes with the risk that StackBlitz could discontinue support at any time. How do you plan to mitigate this risk?
Maintaining Control: With the repo moving to StackBlitz Labs, will you still have control over the Bolt.diy repo?

chris1 · December 11, 2024, 9:05pm

Wow congratulations @ColeMedin and everybody . I’m watching the office hours now. How cool!

Everyone should be so proud this is an amazing thing to be a part of.

Chris

wonderwhy.er · December 11, 2024, 10:51pm

My thoughts are that there are no risks as its still mit licensed open skource and can be forked at any time.

AxieAfrique · December 11, 2024, 11:49pm

cole I have a question regarding Bolt.diy. We still have the freedom to create a fork of Bolt.diy from github at any time?

aliasfox · December 12, 2024, 12:26am

He explains that at the end of the video. Essentially nothing changes, we still have all the freedom and the project doesn’t change. Just moved and arguably renamed.

nickmartin · December 12, 2024, 2:23am

I struggle to see how this is a benefit for bolt.new. I know very little about the open source world and I have always struggled to understand why a commercial company would open source their code, to potentially get better than their own?

How is this move a benefit to bolt.new?

digitalchild · December 12, 2024, 3:06am

Great to hear. It’s always good when the Commerical creator supports the open source movement.

Side note: the social media links on the website footer are broken.

wonderwhy.er · December 12, 2024, 5:35am

The main source for answer for you is always here

github.com

stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy/blob/main/LICENSE

MIT License

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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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Give this to ChatGPT and ask.
All in all, you are legal to fork, change, host and even sell it. Even make proprietary version.

When it comes to Bolt project though, there is one caveat of WebContainer dependency. In theory you can still use it for your own needs. But depends on StackBlitz services and at scale you need to buy license from them for using it at scale.

Due to that we have discussions to try and find alternatives that do not have that limitations.

But its only a problem for those who plan to run it at scale commercially.

thecodacus · December 12, 2024, 5:48am

When it comes to Bolt project though, there is one caveat of WebContainer dependency. In theory you can still use it for your own needs. But depends on StackBlitz services and at scale you need to buy license from them for using it at scale.

Due to that we have discussions to try and find alternatives that do not have that limitations.

But its only a problem for those who plan to run it at scale commercially.

just to be clear whatever @wonderwhy.er mentioned above, this was same before the partnership and has nothing to do with the partnership

grk9993 · December 12, 2024, 7:18am

Sure, I understand. I was worried that, one fine day if stack-blitz deletes the repo and discontinue use of their web-container.
Also, I was curious about what are they bringing to the table. Will Stack-blitz contribute in improving the bolt.diy(Is there any commitment from them?).
As you guys are doing awesome job of maintaing oTToDev repo, will you be incharge of bolt.dey repo as well?

grk9993 · December 12, 2024, 7:24am

@ColeMedin I just saw Bolt office hours:week 8 Bolt Office Hours: Week 8 - YouTube, You were awesome.

wonderwhy.er · December 12, 2024, 7:30am

Repo ownership stays, may be more people will be added to contributors.
Can’t comment on all details of how StackBlitz will help, but collaboration gives more visibility to both sides.
So more people are pouring in here too.

Just yesterday there was a post about this community hitting 1200 users.
Today we are almost at 1400.

So definitely boost.

You can see early boost in stars too

So the way I see it, it brings more credibility and more people, we need to figure out how to collaborate on larger scale, review, test and merge new features. Discuss implementations.

Then Bolt.diy will pick up even more speed.

My initial wish for it was that multiple companies are using it and puroung in resources and PRs and support.

This way we all can have common platform that is competitive with big guys like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot.