Tonight, we are hosting a small hackathon in Phoenix in partnership with @bolt.new! All the hackers get free credits to build whatever they can imagine during the hackathon. Thanks Bolt for the hookup! In this forum thread, all the hackers will submit their projects and vote on their favorite one (they can't vote on their own).
The top project will get hunted on @Product Hunt by me! If you want to follow along, come back to this thread in an hour or so and the submissions will start rolling in.
Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs entirely on open-source models.
Sitting next to Standard and Max in the agent picker, this one is built only on open models - GLM 5.3 Flash and GLM 5.3 as the main pair, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek v4 Pro as experimental picks.
What makes it different: Every individual Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage on Forge, free, through Oct 14, 2026.
The trade is opt-in: your build sessions (prompts, code, fix traces) get anonymized and go toward training new open-weight models with Arcee AI, a US open-model lab. You can stop sharing anytime by switching back to Standard or Max.
Key features:
One monthly usage bar, no daily limits
Hits 100% → auto-switches to Standard, no overage
Scores 92.2 vs 101 for Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark (~91% capability)
Runs on WebContainers in-browser, no server cost
Duplicate your project before testing serious builds, still a research preview
Who it's for: Builders who burn through credits fast in the brainstorm/draft phase and want room to experiment without touching production usage.
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