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by ericmsimons 2y 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!
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by ericmsimons 2y 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!
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 m
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 fr
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 sec
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 t
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by ericmsimons 2y 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:/&#x2F
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 cou
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by ericmsimons 2y 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 a
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by ericmsimons 3y ago
Hey HN- creator here! Thought this was a fun example of a quine and wanted to share. I also made a video & thread that explains how it works: https://twitter.com/ericsimons40/status/1759955628825710760 Happy t
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The Self-Rendering Eval Shirt(blog.stackblitz.com)
1 points by ericmsimons 3y ago|1 comments
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by ericmsimons 3y ago
This is what we do at StackBlitz (stackblitz.com). All hosted in the browser without the need for servers, including fullstack applications.
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
We have a generous free tier on stackblitz.com! Self-hosting does require a paid license though (we have to keep the lights on somehow :)
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
> is it "ECMAScript API of new open source WASM-based POSIX-style browser OS" This is closer to what the Bytecode Alliance is looking to do with WASI, which we're playing a small (but crucial) part in: https://b
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
Eric (StackBlitz CEO) here- just wanted to confirm that we are indeed using VitePress! By far the best documentation site generator available right now from a DX, design, and flexibility perspective. Highly recommend.
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
Eric (StackBlitz CEO) here- you can actually self host StackBlitz! You’ll just need our Enterprise Edition ( https://stackblitz.com/enterprise ) which can be run on any cloud or on-prem. Happy to answer any questions you migh
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
Eric (CEO of StackBlitz) here- your explanation is 100% correct regarding why & how servers need to be used to power parts of WebContainer environments (i.e. proxying npm, git, transforming binaries, amongst a handful of other things).
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
Congrats to Rich & team- SvelteKit is an amazing experience to develop with. Excited to use 1.0 on some new projects!
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by ericmsimons 4y ago
WebContainers: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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Chasing Memory Bugs through V8 and WebAssembly(blog.stackblitz.com)
3 points by ericmsimons 5y ago|0 comments
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Hi- cofounder of StackBlitz here. In regards to my comment 4 years ago, this was in reference to our v1 technology toolchain (turbo npm client, etc) which is all available as open source over at https://github.com/stackblitz
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
TL;DR this only lets you edit files, not actually run commands since there’s no underlying container (unless you pay by the minute for Github Codespaces). This is in contrast to WebContainers which launched a few months ago ( https:/&#
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Copy+pasting my answer from existing comment: It works in Firefox today (minor issues keeping it feature flagged for now) and Safari is close to shipping WASM Threads, so this will likely work on all major browsers by EOY.
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
This really means a lot. I'm glad our work & writing came across genuine.
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Thank you! Our entire team has definitely averaged 3hrs of sleep every night the past week to make this launch happen :) Incredible how much work goes into launching something like this.
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Great question :) We have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
You can actually do this with WebContainers today :) Try it out here: https://stackblitz.com/fork/node Full WASI support in WebContainer is landing in the next 1-2 months.
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Great questions- we have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https:
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
We'll be open sourcing core parts of WebContainer as we move towards GA. We have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core We also did an hour long podcast
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by ericmsimons 5y ago
Yes. One of our engineers has gotten sqlite to run natively in WebContainer. Will be releasing as OSS in the next few weeks!

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