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ericmsimons commented on Show HN: Bolt.new – dev sandbox with AI from StackBlitz   bolt.new/... · Posted by u/heygarrison
TiredOfLife · a year ago
I am talking about bolt.new and not stackblitz. There used to be ability to switch back to free plan. There is no such ability now.
ericmsimons · a year ago
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!
ericmsimons commented on Show HN: Bolt.new – dev sandbox with AI from StackBlitz   bolt.new/... · Posted by u/heygarrison
e-clinton · a year ago
Not optimized for mobile? In 2024? This is a joke.
ericmsimons · a year ago
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 to it!

ericmsimons commented on Show HN: Bolt.new – dev sandbox with AI from StackBlitz   bolt.new/... · Posted by u/heygarrison
akudha · a year ago
Wait, how is it legal to stop customers from canceling?
ericmsimons · a year ago
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 screenshot I just took of my own billing page (see the "cancel subscription" link under the "Current Plan" section): https://imgur.com/a/6ZTWgEL

ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
jraph · 2 years ago
I'm surprised a patent would be necessary for this. Wouldn't copyright already prevent them to do so?
ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 a blog post about what happened so other startups have a frame of reference on how to deal with this sort of thing. Truly wild stuff and can be very counterintuitive.

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ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
spankalee · 2 years ago
What's the patent you mention on the site? Are any other web-based terminal, shell, or Node emulators at risk of violating it? Is it for a specific implementation technique? It's kind of scary to see in the docs, to be honest.
ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 motivation for securing this was that we've had issues (one instance in particular) where we caught a direct competitor directly copy+pasting code from our compiled builds into their own competing product. Asking them nicely to stop didn't do anything, nor getting emails from our lawyers.

The main lever a startup has to solve this is to keep innovating and being the best product in the market, which is what we have done & continue to do. But having a patent is a useful lever for general deterrence from bad actors like this. (Also want to say thanks and give credit to Vinay Hiremath, cofounder of Loom, who went through similar in the early days of Loom and helped point us down the path of securing a patent)

ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
libming_ · 2 years ago
StackBlitz has always struck me as a solution in search of a problem.

Buyer beware: WebContainers is closed-source and there are hundreds of open issues from users. Most of them are ignored for weeks and months at a time as the company pivots from one thing to the next: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core/issues

ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 itself is a product suite built on top of webcontainers. note that many issues in the repo you linked are not for webcontainers specifically, but instead mostly for stackblitz specific functionality.

we have about 3m devs/mo using us for free on stackblitz.com, so we do the best we can for free public issue triage but do prioritize our paying customers (we are a business after all :)

ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
tcper · 2 years ago
Good tech, but only good fit for StackBlitz.

Don't know who will need this product to run a node.js enviroment in browser.

ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 interactive edu tools, AI code execution (https://webcontainers.io/ai), SaaS dev envs for end users to write code, amongst others

ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
fragmede · 2 years ago
That demo is really impressive. It's click, scroll, click to get to it though. I'd make it a big button on the main page with marketing copy around it.

Bonus points for also buying https://webcontainer.io/ (no s) and pointing it at the right place.

Also, this is like the better funded, more productized cousin of https://webvm.io/

ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 it might be too confusing what’s going on, but I think we could find ways to ease that in that experience itself
ericmsimons commented on WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/tosh
ericmsimons · 2 years ago
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 seen growing rapidly has been code execution for AI agents. Would love thoughts/questions/feedback if you’re working on things in that space: https://webcontainers.io/ai

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