Bolt · AI app builder
Make one backend provider the default for every AI-generated app
Called a big step forward; no numbers
Workedfeature-developmentpartnerships
What they did
Bolt and Lovable both made Supabase the standard back end, connecting accounts for users and likely adding system-prompt rules such as 'use Supabase' and 'don't leak the private key into the client', keeping generated code on well-trained rails.
What happened
Charlie calls it a big step forward for both products.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Building Apps Faster: How AI and React Native are Changing the Game – Charlie Cheever, Expo“And so a big step forward for for Bolt and Lovable was when they both took Supabase and made that sort of the the sort of, this is the way that we do a back end for you.”
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