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Bolt = StackBlitz, ie Bolt doesn't have it's own subscription plans - if you go to your stackblitz billing profile I linked above you can cancel and downgrade to the free plan!

To get the mvp out we had to cut scope somehow, mobile was one of them, and an easy one because this app is meant to be used on desktop :) Will be adding responsive styling shortly…

Hi- Eric cofounder of StackBlitz/Bolt here, not sure what OP is talking about? You can cancel your subscription at any time over at https://stackblitz.com/settings/billing Here's a…

Technically speaking yes, but practically it turns out you often need multiple levers to actually get resolution when dealing with bad faith actors. At some point I intend to write…

Good question, here's the link to it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220417315A1/en?q=(stac... It's somewhat specific to our use case as you'll see when you read through. A …

stackblitz ceo here, just to clarify: we haven’t ever pivoted from webcontainers, not sure what you’re talking about there. it’s been our main thing since forever :) stackblitz its…

We originally thought the same but a few years back started seeing increasing demand outside of stackblitz itself. Surprisingly a very large and growing number of use cases across …

Thanks for this feedback- we’ll definitely make it easier to land on the webcontainer.new demo from the homepage. I think our main concern initially was that without docs context i…

Hi HN! Cofounder of StackBlitz/WebContainers here, cool to wake up and see this on the front page unexpectedly :) Happy to answer any questions! Btw one emergent use case we've see…

Hey HN- creator here! Thought this was a fun example of a quine and wanted to share. I also made a video & thread that explains how it works: https://twitter.com/ericsimons40/statu…

This is what we do at StackBlitz (stackblitz.com). All hosted in the browser without the need for servers, including fullstack applications.

We have a generous free tier on stackblitz.com! Self-hosting does require a paid license though (we have to keep the lights on somehow :)

> is it "ECMAScript API of new open source WASM-based POSIX-style browser OS" This is closer to what the Bytecode Alliance is looking to do with WASI, which we're playing a small (…

Eric (StackBlitz CEO) here- just wanted to confirm that we are indeed using VitePress! By far the best documentation site generator available right now from a DX, design, and flexi…

Eric (StackBlitz CEO) here- you can actually self host StackBlitz! You’ll just need our Enterprise Edition ( https://stackblitz.com/enterprise ) which can be run on any cloud or on…

Eric (CEO of StackBlitz) here- your explanation is 100% correct regarding why & how servers need to be used to power parts of WebContainer environments (i.e. proxying npm, git, tra…

Congrats to Rich & team- SvelteKit is an amazing experience to develop with. Excited to use 1.0 on some new projects!

WebContainers: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/

Hi- cofounder of StackBlitz here. In regards to my comment 4 years ago, this was in reference to our v1 technology toolchain (turbo npm client, etc) which is all available as open …

TL;DR this only lets you edit files, not actually run commands since there’s no underlying container (unless you pay by the minute for Github Codespaces). This is in contrast to We…

Copy+pasting my answer from existing comment: It works in Firefox today (minor issues keeping it feature flagged for now) and Safari is close to shipping WASM Threads, so this will…

This really means a lot. I'm glad our work & writing came across genuine.