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bolt.diy

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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Maintained by StackBlitz Labs and community (the open version of Bolt.new).

W2 What

A prompt-driven full-stack app builder that generates, runs, and previews projects in the browser.

W3 Where

Runs entirely in the browser using WebContainers; self-hostable.

W4 When

Reach for it when scaffolding and iterating on full-stack web apps from natural language.

W5 Why

Open-source, model-agnostic, and runs the whole dev environment client-side with live preview.

W6 With

An LLM API key (many providers); runs on WebContainer in a browser.

W7 Watch

StackBlitz-affiliated open-source; generated code executes in the in-browser sandbox, not on your host. MIT licensed, popular and active.

App-builderIn-browserFull-stackOpen-source

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