Bolt rescue
Stuck on a Bolt.new build?
Bolt is a remarkable way to go from a blank page to something running in your browser in minutes. The trouble usually starts on the way out of the sandbox — when the app needs a real database, real logins, a real domain and a deploy that doesn't fall over. That's a different kind of work, and it's the kind we do.
$495 fixed price · written report within 3 business days · no obligation to continue
In short
PixelApps takes Bolt.new projects from the sandbox to a live product. We add the parts Bolt doesn't finish — a real database, authentication, integrations and a reliable deployment — and fix what broke on the way. A $495 fixed-price audit gives you a written report within three business days.
Sound familiar?
If you recognise two or three of these, an audit will pay for itself.
It runs in the preview and nowhere else
Perfect inside Bolt, broken the moment it's deployed to Netlify or Vercel. Usually environment or build configuration, occasionally something more structural.
The tokens ran out before the app did
You've spent the budget going in circles on one stubborn error and the app is still not finished.
There's no real backend
The data lives in the browser, or in a mock, and turning it into an actual database with actual users is the wall you've hit.
Login was where it fell apart
Authentication is the single most common place a Bolt build stops. It's fiddly, security-sensitive, and unforgiving of near-misses.
It's grown too big to steer
The project is now large enough that each prompt rewrites something you wanted left alone.
- Why do Bolt.new apps stall at deployment?
- Bolt runs your app inside the browser using StackBlitz WebContainers, which is why it starts so fast. The catch is that a browser sandbox is not a server: things that work in the preview — file handling, background jobs, environment variables, database connections — behave differently once the app is deployed somewhere real. Most Bolt projects stall at exactly that boundary.
What we actually do
We get it out of the sandbox cleanly
Export to a proper repository, sort the build, and get a deployment that behaves identically every time — on Vercel, Netlify or wherever suits you.
We give it a real backend
A proper Postgres database — Supabase in most cases — with a schema that fits your data, migrations, and access rules written and tested.
We build authentication properly
Sign-up, sign-in, password reset, email verification, sessions and roles. Done once, done correctly, so you never think about it again.
We finish the features that defeated it
Payments, file uploads, emails, scheduled jobs, third-party APIs — the things that need a server and can't be faked in a preview.
We set up the boring essentials
Environments, secrets management, error monitoring, backups and analytics. Unglamorous, and the difference between a demo and a product.
What it costs
Everything is quoted at a fixed price before it starts. No hourly surprises.
Rescue audit
$495
fixed price
A senior developer reviews your codebase, database and deployment, and sends a written report within 3 business days.
Rescue sprint
$2,500 – $8,000
typical range
We fix what the audit found: security holes closed, the app stabilised, deployment sorted, and the parts that stopped you shipping actually finished.
Ongoing care
$750
from, per month
A monthly retainer: hosting, updates, security patches, backups, monitoring, an agreed block of development time, and a human who answers when something breaks. We also work ad-hoc — just ask.
What the $495 audit includes
- A plain-English summary of what you have and what state it is in
- Security review — database access rules, exposed keys, login and permissions
- A prioritised list of what is broken, what is risky and what is merely untidy
- A fixed-price quote for the work, and an honest view on rebuild vs repair
- The report is yours to keep and take to any developer
When you don't need us
If you're still exploring an idea, stay in Bolt — it's a better prototyping environment than anything we'd hand-build for you, and paying developers to formalise a concept you might scrap next week is a waste of your money. The moment to call is when you've decided the idea is real.
Send us your app
$495 fixed price. Written report within 3 business days.
Common questions
Yes. We export it to a repository you own, fix whatever the build needs, and deploy it to real hosting with proper environment separation. You end up with a standard project any developer can work on, not something locked to one tool.
Not necessarily. Plenty of clients keep prototyping new screens in Bolt while we look after the production app. We'll set up a workflow that keeps the two from stepping on each other.
Yes, and it's one of the most common jobs we do on Bolt projects. We design a schema around your actual data, migrate anything worth keeping, and write the access rules so users can only see what they should.
$495 for the audit and written report, then a fixed-price quote for the work. Most Bolt rescues land between $2,500 and $8,000 depending on how much backend has to be built from scratch.