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[February 7, 2025] From Pain Point to Prototype Building with Bolt, Polishing with Cursor * * * The distance from end user to product manager is compressing fast. From "I need a solution to this" to "here's the simple hack I built". Here's what I've found: Essentials ---------- * Bolt.new $50/month for 50M tokens, worth every penny. A junior dev would charge you $20 grand to crank out what this will do in an hour. * Cursor (Getting better daily) VSCode fork. First time I'd touched this in a while, but this is really getting better all the time. Bang out your basic foundation in Bolt, then refine in Cursor. The Build Path -------------- 1. Rough out the front end in Cursor 2. Wire up Supabase backend, integrated in Bolt 3. Slap on Google Analytics 4. Add basic SEO tagging 5. Ship it. Bolt is integrated with Netflify to host, but I've also used Cloudflare It's definitely not plug and play. I'd say you need to be a kind of coding "prosumer" - either Python or JavaScript. Nothing fancy, just enough to be dangerous. You don't need to remember where the last parenthesis goes, but the basic gist. I've had to overcome every perfectionist impulse here to start with broad strokes first, refine later. The frameworks are compressing build time and getting better all the time. What used to take months now takes days. Perfect for testing if an idea has legs. Note: Haven't tried Replit yet, but it's next on the list. ================================================================================ C:\> CD .. Return to Index ================================================================================