Using Bolt to generate income is a real conversation now and the framing has gotten more specific

Micro SaaS for small businesses is the one with the clearest product-market fit logic. A small business with a specific operational problem too niche for existing SaaS but not complex enough to justify custom development is the gap Bolt-built products can fill. The economics work if you can identify the problem and close the customer. Neither of those is trivial.

Freelancing on Upwork and Fiverr positions Bolt as a margin improvement rather than a new business model. You are delivering the same output faster with better economics, not doing something categorically different from what freelancers already do.

Template creation and marketplace sales is the lowest barrier entry point. Build once, sell repeatedly. The honest challenge is differentiation as more builders use the same tools and template categories get saturated.

Understanding which pricing tier your specific use case requires before projecting the economics is the homework that determines whether the numbers actually work.

Has anyone shipped a paying product built primarily in Bolt? What was the first limitation you hit when moving from prototype to something customers were paying for?