r/boltnewbuilders

I built an app using the Bolt + Supabase integration, but I never claimed the Supabase project in Supabase itself, it was all running inside Bolt.

Today I opened the project and got this message:

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Just to be clear, i didn't delete the database... Does this mean the entire database is gone? Is there any way to recover it, or has anyone else experienced this?

I've been doing complimentary tech consulting calls with vibe-coders the last week. And I've noticed something:

• 70-80% of the people I've talked to are overbuilding.

Their apps/platforms are sprawling bigger and bigger: more features, more ideas, etc. And most of them still say, "I just have a few more things I'm going to add before I launch."

It's clear: one huge downside of vibe-coding is that it's so easy to just keep building. Not just easy, but addicting.

After 25 years of building and delivering SaaS products, let me tell you: more is not better. You think it is, but it's not. You don't need more features to succeed.

My calls this week were supposed to center on addressing vibe-coder's technical questions and roadblocks. But mostly I found myself giving the same advice over and over again:

You need to go narrower. You need to find the core value of your product, strip everything else away, and absolutely nail the user journey to receiving that core value. Users will land on your site/app with the assumption that they're going to be disappointed. That's the truth.

Within seconds, you have to show them something that creates a crack in that assumption. They have to react with, "Oh wow, maybe this thing is actually exactly right for me!"

Once they are open to that possibility, then you need to deliver on that promise as quickly as possible. You have a few minutes and a few clicks to do that.

That motion of "land -> overcome doubt -> deliver value" needs to be your sole focus. Strip everything else away, stop building, and start testing that flow with real users. You underestimate how hard it is to get that right, and how many iterations you need to get there. Everything else is a waste of time right now.

If you can't stick the landing on that simple flow, more features only makes it worse.

Once you get the core flow working, then you can look at adding adjacent value, features that will keep them coming back again and again, etc. You can add breadth and depth, but you won't know how to do it effectively until you've nailed the narrow flow.

Don't tell me to ask Bolt.new to fix it because it's what I've been doing and all it did is consuming tockens without finxing the problem

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I've been building more and more projects with Bolt lately, and one thing kept bothering me.

Building the web app is incredibly fast.
Turning it into an iOS and Android app... not so much.

I found myself repeating the same setup every single time: creating the Capacitor project, configuring iOS and Android, installing plugins, setting up icons, splash screens, deep links, etc.

After doing it a few times, I ended up building a small CLI that automates the whole process.

Now it's basically:

npx capstart init

It takes an existing Bolt project and prepares it for iOS and Android in a couple of minutes.

I'm curious if anyone else here is taking their Bolt projects to mobile, or if most people keep them as web apps :)

This has happened multiple times, customer support used to be responsive, nothing but crickets. I've spent thousands with and have lost thousands now. What is going on, this is the third time this has happened in 5 months? It takes weeks to get anything done anymore?

I'm in a difficult situation right now and could really use some help.

I had a freelance project lined up that would have covered my university fees, but the client backed out at the last moment after weeks of work. Because of that, I'm now short $500, and my university payment is still pending.

I'm not looking for donations. I'm looking for work.

I'm a full-stack developer and can help with:

High-converting websites

Landing pages

Admin dashboards

Custom backend development

API integrations

Workflow automation

Lead capture systems

CRM-style dashboards

I primarily work with modern Typescript technologies and build fast, responsive applications from frontend to backend.

If you or someone you know needs a developer for a project, even something small, I'd really appreciate the opportunity.

Please send me a DM or comment so i can send my portfolio.

Thank you for reading.