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StackBlitz's product Bolt grew from $0 to $20 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in its first two months after launch.
StackBlitz's product Bolt surpassed $30 million in ARR and was on the verge of crossing $40 million ARR approximately four and a half months after launch.
StackBlitz forecasts that its product Bolt will reach $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) within its first year.
StackBlitz's product Bolt acquired 3 million registered users and reached approximately 1 million monthly active users within its first few months.
The rapid growth of AI code generation tools like Bolt and Cursor was directly enabled by the release of Anthropic's Sonnet model, which was the first to reliably produce production-grade code.
StackBlitz has partnered with Anima to launch a feature that converts a Figma design into a full-stack web or mobile app by prepending "bolt.new/" to the Figma URL.
StackBlitz is developing a Slack bot for Bolt that will act as an AI developer, taking instructions from a Slack thread to generate and modify applications.
Demand for Bolt was so high after launch that its model provider, Anthropic, temporarily ran out of available GPU capacity to serve them.
The existence of Bolt is entirely dependent on StackBlitz's proprietary WebContainer technology, which enables running an operating system in the browser.
A non-technical entrepreneur used Bolt to build a functional CRM with AI and Stripe integration in three weeks for about $300, after receiving an agency quote of $30,000 and a six-month timeline.
StackBlitz was on the verge of shutting down before launching its product Bolt.
StackBlitz's CEO believes that Cursor is the only AI code generation startup with higher adoption or revenue than Bolt.